But no less is it true that had either been influenced by self-seeking ambition, by callous disregard of others, by contempt for the moral law, he would have dashed us down into the black gulf of failure.
Roosevelt warns that self-serving ambition and disregard for moral law in leaders would have resulted in national failure.
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