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Teddy Roosevelt: “We have become a great Nation, forced by the fact of its greatness into relations with the other nations of the earth…”

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We have become a great Nation, forced by the fact of its greatness into relations with the other nations of the earth; and we must behave as beseems a people with such responsibilities.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Roosevelt highlights the responsibilities that come with being a powerful nation in the world.

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