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Teddy Roosevelt: “Each one of us then who has an education, school or college, has obtained something from the community at large for…”

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Each one of us then who has an education, school or college, has obtained something from the community at large for which he or she has not paid, and no self-respecting man or woman is content to rest permanently under such an obligation.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt asserts that those who receive an education owe a debt to society that must be repaid through good citizenship.

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