On the recordJanuary 1, 1900
If courage and strength and intellect are unaccompanied by the moral purpose, the moral sense, they become merely forms of expression for unscrupulous force and unscrupulous cunning.
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gutenberg.orgTeddy Roosevelt: “If courage and strength and intellect are unaccompanied by the moral purpose, the moral sense, they become merely forms…”
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Roosevelt warns that strength and intellect without moral purpose lead to unscrupulous and destructive outcomes.
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