Teddy Roosevelt: “A man can be freed from the necessity of work only by the fact that he…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1900

A man can be freed from the necessity of work only by the fact that he or his fathers before him have worked to good purpose.

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Republican · New York

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Roosevelt asserts that freedom from labor is a consequence of prior generations' productive efforts.

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