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Teddy Roosevelt: “Children of to-day are going to decide what our country shall be in the immediate future, and accordingly as they are…”

On the recordOctober 22, 1905
Children of to-day are going to decide what our country shall be in the immediate future, and accordingly as they are brought up well or ill our country will go forward or backward in the years that are now open.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Remarks in Flomaton, Alabama

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