No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the virile qualities without which no nation can speak with power, or can command respect in the councils of the world.
— Theodore Roosevelt Modern

US President, progressive era

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Speech, 'The Strenuous Life'

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1899

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Shocking

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https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/TRC/Theodore-Roosevelt/Research-and-Arti…

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