More and more we are learning that to love one’s country above all others is in no way incompatible with respecting and wishing well to all others, and that, as between man and man, so between nation and nation, there should live the great law of right.
Speaking on national duty and international relations, Roosevelt articulates a principle of patriotic love coexisting with global respect and justice.
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