It is a sad and evil thing if the men with a moral sense group themselves as impractical zealots, while the men of action gradually grow to discard and laugh at all moral sense as an evidence of impractical weakness.
Roosevelt laments the division between moral individuals and those who take action, warning against impractical zealotry.
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