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Teddy Roosevelt: “We should fail in our duty if we did not try to remedy the evils, but we shall succeed only if we proceed patiently…”

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We should fail in our duty if we did not try to remedy the evils, but we shall succeed only if we proceed patiently, with practical common sense as well as resolution, separating the good from the bad and holding on to the former while endeavoring to get rid of the latter.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York
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Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt stresses the importance of a careful and sensible approach to reforming societal evils.

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