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Teddy Roosevelt: “It is a great mistake to think that the extremist is a better man than the moderate.”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1900
It is a great mistake to think that the extremist is a better man than the moderate.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt asserts that it is erroneous to assume that an extremist is inherently morally superior to a moderate.

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