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Teddy Roosevelt: “Our aim must be to hand over to our children not an impoverished but an improved heritage.”

On the recordMay 8, 1903
Our aim must be to hand over to our children not an impoverished but an improved heritage.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Address at San Luis Obispo, California

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