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Teddy Roosevelt: “Ordinarily it is very much wiser and more useful for us to concern ourselves with striving for our own moral and…”

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Ordinarily it is very much wiser and more useful for us to concern ourselves with striving for our own moral and material betterment here at home than to concern ourselves with trying to better the condition of things in other nations.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

He advises focusing on domestic improvement rather than trying to fix other nations' issues.

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