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Teddy Roosevelt: “Fundamentally, it ought to be based on just about the principle that ought to govern each private individual citizen in…”

On the recordFebruary 12, 1905
Fundamentally, it ought to be based on just about the principle that ought to govern each private individual citizen in dealing with his fellow, on the principle of trying to act squarely by every other nation, and of exacting square treatment in return.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Remarks at the Banquet of the New York Press Club in New York City

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