Teddy Roosevelt: “I want to see the intellect developed only in so far as it is…”

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I want to see the intellect developed only in so far as it is controlled by conscience, by a sense of right and wrong.

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Republican · New York

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Roosevelt stresses that intellectual development should be guided by moral values.

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Teddy Roosevelt: “I want to see the intellect developed only in so far as it is controlled by conscience, by a sense of right and wrong.”