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Teddy Roosevelt: “Self-help and individual initiative remain to a peculiar degree typical of life in the country, life on a farm, in the…”

On the recordAugust 26, 1902
Self-help and individual initiative remain to a peculiar degree typical of life in the country, life on a farm, in the lumbering camp, on a ranch.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Remarks at the Fair Ground in Bangor, Maine

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