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Teddy Roosevelt: “There are good citizens and bad citizens in every class as in every locality, and the attitude of decent people toward…”

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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.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt emphasizes that good and bad citizens exist in every class, and principles should guide public attitudes.

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