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Teddy Roosevelt: “As you did not win in a month or a year, but only after long years of hard and dangerous work, so the fight for…”

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As you did not win in a month or a year, but only after long years of hard and dangerous work, so the fight for governmental honesty and efficiency can be won only by the display of similar patience and similar resolution and power of endurance.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt draws a parallel between the struggle for governmental honesty and the long fight for independence.

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