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Teddy Roosevelt: “Sometimes in the past the republic became a republic in which one class grew to dominate over another class, so that for…”

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Sometimes in the past the republic became a republic in which one class grew to dominate over another class, so that for loyalty to the republic was substituted loyalty to a class.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Roosevelt discusses the dangers of class loyalty undermining loyalty to the republic.

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