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Teddy Roosevelt: “Those qualities and others like them go to the root of the whole question of citizenship.”

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Those qualities and others like them go to the root of the whole question of citizenship.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt states that certain qualities are essential to the essence of citizenship.

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