“Teddy Tweets”

Theodore Roosevelt’s Weekly Wisdom

Presented by The Ripon Society

“In order to get good citizenship the average man must have honesty, he must have courage, and united to them he must have the saving grace of common sense.”

Theodore Roosevelt

Speech in Westfield, Massachusetts

September 2, 1902

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