Teddy Roosevelt said "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." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordJune 27, 1905

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.

Said by

Teddy Roosevelt

Republican · New York

Source

presidency.ucsb.edu

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at the Alumni Dinner of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts

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