QuoteQuest“By God, if you try anything like that, I'll kick you, I'll bite you, I'll kick you in the balls. I'll do anything to you — you'd better leave me alone.”
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Source
- Title
- Wikiquote: Theodore Roosevelt
- Type
- reference · Secondary source
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- Wikiquote
Context
1881, to "Big John" McManus, a Tammany Hall politician in the New York State Assembly, about a plan to humiliate Roosevelt by tossing him in a blanket. Quoted in "I Rose Like a Rocket: The Political Education of Theodore Roosevelt" (2007) by Paul Grondahl, pg 3. Also quoted in The War Lovers (2010)
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Roosevelt, Theodore. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Theodore Roosevelt. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt
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