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Teddy Roosevelt: “You might have all the individual shots you could gather, and they would not be worth a rap if they could not act…”

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You might have all the individual shots you could gather, and they would not be worth a rap if they could not act together, if they did not act so as to subordinate in the mind of each man the success of that particular man to the success for which they all stood.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt stresses the necessity of unity and collective effort for success in any endeavor.

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