Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

I ask that the nation dare to be great, and that in daring to be great it show how to do justice to the weak no less than to exact justice from the strong.

Context

Remarks on Receiving the Degree of Doctor of Human Letters From Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts

06/21/1905

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