Teddy Roosevelt said "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." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

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

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