“Don't let anyone impose on you. Don't be quarrelsome, but st…”

“Don't let anyone impose on you. Don't be quarrelsome, but stand up for your rights. If you've got to fight, fight hard and well. To my mind, a coward is the only thing meaner than a liar.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

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Title: Wikiquote: Theodore Roosevelt
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Talk to schoolchildren in Oyster Bay, Christmastime (1898), as quoted in The Bully Pulpit : A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations (2002) by H. Paul Jeffers, p. 22

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Roosevelt, Theodore. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Theodore Roosevelt. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt

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