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Teddy Roosevelt: “It is wise to conserve this virtue and to provide for its fullest exercise, compatible with seeing that liberty does not…”

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It is wise to conserve this virtue and to provide for its fullest exercise, compatible with seeing that liberty does not become a liberty to wrong others.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt emphasizes the importance of balancing liberty with responsibility to others.

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