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On the recordAugust 30, 1910
No man is worth his salt in public life who makes on the stump a pledge which he does not keep after election; and, if he makes such a pledge and does not keep it, hunt him out of public life.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Remarks in Osawatomie, Kansas: The New Nationalism

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