If you let your daughters grow up idle, perhaps under the mistaken impression that as you yourselves have had to work hard they shall know only enjoyment, you are preparing them to be useless to others and burdens to themselves.
Roosevelt critiques the idea of raising daughters without the value of hard work.
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I want every labor man, every labor leader, every organized union man, to take the lead in denouncing crime or violence.
Like all other good citizens, I accept the result with entire good humor and contentment.
The fate of the leader for the time being is of little consequence, but the cause itself must in the end triumph, for its triumph is essential to the well-being of the American people.
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