Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

You have hay and stock farms outside, and you, therefore, have in this community the farmer and the towns man, the employer and the wage worker.

Remarks in Newport, New Hampshire

08/28/1902

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To speak discourteously, insultingly, does not do them any harm; it may irritate them, and therefore, it may do us some harm.

May I ask those who have not differed with me to join with me in this same spirit toward those who have?

It is not a matter of credit to be honest, any more than it is a matter of credit to a soldier to be brave.

Let us, therefore, study the incidents of this as philosophy to learn wisdom from, and none of them as wrongs to be revenged.