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Teddy Roosevelt: “You can not have good public life unless you have as a basis good private life.”

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You can not have good public life unless you have as a basis good private life.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt connects the quality of public life to the integrity of private life.

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