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Teddy Roosevelt: “Many times peoples who were slothful or timid or shortsighted, who had been enervated by ease or by luxury, or misled by…”

On the recordDecember 5, 1904
Many times peoples who were slothful or timid or shortsighted, who had been enervated by ease or by luxury, or misled by false teachings, have shrunk in unmanly fashion from doing duty that was stern and that needed self-sacrifice.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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