Teddy Roosevelt: “Our pride in what was done in the past should not permit us to be led…”

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Our pride in what was done in the past should not permit us to be led away into blindness by failure to appreciate whatever was wrong in the past.

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Republican · New York

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Roosevelt warns against letting pride in past achievements blind us to historical mistakes.

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Teddy Roosevelt: “Our pride in what was done in the past should not permit us to be led away into blindness by failure to appreciate…”