Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

A great democracy like ours, a democracy based upon the principles of orderly liberty, can be perpetuated only if in the heart of ordinary citizens there dwells a keen sense of righteousness, and justice.

Context

Proclamation 776—Thanksgiving Day, 1907

10/25/1907

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