Political Quotes

On the recordJanuary 25, 1905
But if we have solved every other problem in the wisest possible way, it shall profit us nothing if we have lost our own national soul.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Remarks to a Committee of the Inter-Church Conference on Marriage and Divorce at the White House

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