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Teddy Roosevelt: “The forces of evil are strong and mighty in this century and in this country, as they are in other countries; and the…”

On the recordJanuary 28, 1905
The forces of evil are strong and mighty in this century and in this country, as they are in other countries; and the people who sincerely wish to do the Lord’s work will find ample opportunity for all their labor in fighting the common enemy and in assuming toward their fellows of a different confession an attitude of generous rivalry in the effort to see how the most good can be done to our people as a whole.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at the Rededication of the Luther Place Memorial Church

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