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On the recordAugust 29, 1902
Each man of you who looks back on his life will feel proud to hand to his children, not the memory of the days of ease, but the days that were pretty hard, that meant hard work, but wherein he did something.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Remarks in Windsor, Vermont

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