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Teddy Roosevelt: “No nation can permanently retain free government unless it can retain a high average of citizenship; and there can be no…”

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No nation can permanently retain free government unless it can retain a high average of citizenship; and there can be no such high average of citizenship without a high average of education, using the word in its broadest and truest sense to include the things of the soul as well as the things of the mind.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Roosevelt argues that a high level of education is essential for maintaining free government and citizenship.

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