There are good citizens and bad citizens in every class as in every locality, and the attitude of decent people toward great public and social questions should be determined, not by the accidental questions of employment or locality, but by those deep-set principles which represent the innermost souls of men.
Roosevelt emphasizes that good and bad citizens exist in every class, and principles should guide public attitudes.
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