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Teddy Roosevelt: “No one can too strongly insist upon the elementary fact that you cannot build the superstructure of public virtue save…”

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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