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Teddy Roosevelt: “Fundamentally, our attitude in our foreign affairs and in reference to foreign nations, must, in the long run, if we are…”

On the recordApril 5, 1905
Fundamentally, our attitude in our foreign affairs and in reference to foreign nations, must, in the long run, if we are to be successful as a people, be based upon certain common sense rules of conduct; the identical rules upon which every self-respecting citizen must base his private actions.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Address to the Texas State Legislature in Austin

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