Teddy Roosevelt: “It shall profit us nothing if our people are decent and ineffective.”

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It shall profit us nothing if our people are decent and ineffective.

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Republican · New York

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Roosevelt argues that decency without effectiveness is ultimately unhelpful for society.

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