But the nation is badly off if in addition to this there is not a very much higher standard of conduct, a standard impossible effectively to establish by statute, but one upon which the community as a whole, and especially the real leaders of the community, insist.
Remarks at the Alumni Dinner of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts
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