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Surely you must not rob your sons of the right to feel in their turn the same pride that you now feel in the power to overcome difficulty, the power to work, the power of wresting triumph out of danger.
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Roosevelt stresses the importance of allowing future generations to experience pride in overcoming difficulties.
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