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Teddy Roosevelt: “A great democracy like ours, a democracy based upon the principles of orderly liberty, can be perpetuated only if in the…”

On the recordOctober 25, 1907
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.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Proclamation 776—Thanksgiving Day, 1907

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