Political Quotes

On the recordMay 13, 1903
No one can too strongly insist upon the elementary fact that you cannot build the superstructure of public virtue save on private virtue.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Address at the Banquet Tendered Him by the Union League Club of San Francisco, California

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