Political Quotes

On the recordMay 13, 1903
I ask of you the straightforward, earnest performance of duty in all the little things that come up day by day in business, in domestic life, in every way.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Address at the University of California in Berkeley

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