The Republic will go down, our democratic institutions will be a failure, if the moral sense of the people grows so blunted that they will accept anything else, whether brilliancy or loyalty of party service, or any other deed or quality, as an offset to corruption.
Roosevelt warns that the Republic will fail if corruption is tolerated over moral integrity.
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