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“In short, in life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard; don't foul and don't shirk, but hit the line hard!
— Theodore Roosevelt
26th President of the United States
"The American Boy", published in St. Nicholas 27, no. 7 (May 1900), p. 574
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