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Teddy Roosevelt: “If we think we can render it without taking the pains, if we think we can render it by feeling how nice it would be to…”

On the recordApril 18, 1902
If we think we can render it without taking the pains, if we think we can render it by feeling how nice it would be to render it—why, the value of that service will be but little.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Remarks at the Banquet at Sherry's in Honor of Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University in New York...

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