Teddy Roosevelt: “We despise the boy who treats the fact that his father counted for…”

On the recordOctober 18, 1905

We despise the boy who treats the fact that his father counted for something as being an excuse for his counting for nothing.

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Republican · New York

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Remarks in Greensboro, North Carolina

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Teddy Roosevelt: “We despise the boy who treats the fact that his father counted for something as being an excuse for his counting for…”