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Teddy Roosevelt: “God calls all the passions out in their keenness and vigor for the present safety of mankind, anger and revenge and the…”

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God calls all the passions out in their keenness and vigor for the present safety of mankind, anger and revenge and the heroic mind, and a readiness to suffer—all the secret strength, all the invisible array of the feelings—all that nature has reserved for the great scenes of the world.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt speaks to the power of human emotions in the face of adversity and the need for heroic qualities.

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