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Teddy Roosevelt: “No law that the wit of man has ever devised ever has made or ever will make the fool wise, the coward brave, or the…”

On the recordMay 11, 1903
No law that the wit of man has ever devised ever has made or ever will make the fool wise, the coward brave, or the weakling strong.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Address at a Banquet Tendered by the Citizens of San Francisco, California at the Palace Hotel

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