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Teddy Roosevelt: “Our safety lies in the sanity, the cool hard-headedness, the self-restraint, mingled with the resolute purpose of our…”

On the recordAugust 29, 1902
Our safety lies in the sanity, the cool hard-headedness, the self-restraint, mingled with the resolute purpose of our people to get the right law on the statute books, to see that it is then enforced against the great and small with even handed justice.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Remarks in Randolph, Vermont

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