We face the future with our past and our present as guarantors of our promises; and we are content to stand or to fall by the record which we have made and are making. (Theodore Roosevelt)

We face the future with our past and our present as guarantors of our promises; and we are content to stand or to fall by the record which we have made and are making.

Theodore Roosevelt

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