Teddy Roosevelt: “They had high ideals, and they strove to realize them, as near as…”

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They had high ideals, and they strove to realize them, as near as might be; otherwise they would have been neither patriots nor statesmen.

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Republican · New York

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Roosevelt reflects on the importance of high ideals in patriotism and statesmanship.

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