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Theodore Roosevelt

26th President. Naturalist, soldier, reformer.

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.”

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"Citizenship in a Republic" speech at the Sorbonne, Paris. Often called "The Man in the Arena."

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1910-04-23

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