“ No man, no woman, can shirk the primary duties of life, whether for love of ease and pleasure, or for any other cause, and retain his or her self-respect. ”
Theodore Roosevelt, State of the Union Address. copy citation
| Author | Theodore Roosevelt |
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| Source | State of the Union Address |
| Topic | duty pleasure |
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| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/5032/5032-h/5032-h.htm |
Context
“a sin which is the more dreadful exactly in proportion as the men and women guilty thereof are in other respects, in character, and bodily and mental powers, those whom for the sake of the state it would be well to see the fathers and mothers of many healthy children, well brought up in homes made happy by their presence. No man, no woman, can shirk the primary duties of life, whether for love of ease and pleasure, or for any other cause, and retain his or her self-respect.
Let me once again call the attention of the Congress to two subjects concerning which I have frequently before communicated with them. One is the question of developing American shipping. I trust that a law embodying in substance the views, or a major part of the views, exprest in the report on this subject laid before the House at its last session will be past.”
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