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In either case, just as soon as the republic became one in which one class substituted loyalty to that class for loyalty to the republic, the end of the republic was at hand.
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gutenberg.orgTeddy Roosevelt: “In either case, just as soon as the republic became one in which one class substituted loyalty to that class for loyalty…”
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Roosevelt concludes that the end of a republic is imminent when class loyalty supersedes loyalty to the state.
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