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Teddy Roosevelt: “Above all, our sympathy and regard are due to the struggling wives among those whom Abraham Lincoln called the plain…”

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Above all, our sympathy and regard are due to the struggling wives among those whom Abraham Lincoln called the plain people, and whom he so loved and trusted; for the lives of these women are often led on the lonely heights of quiet, self-sacrificing heroism.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt pays tribute to the struggles of women who embody self-sacrificing heroism.

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