Teddy Roosevelt: “The crisis which they faced was to determine whether or not this…”

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The crisis which they faced was to determine whether or not this people was fit for self-government and, therefore, fit for liberty.

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Republican · New York

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Roosevelt reflects on the importance of self-government as a measure of a people's readiness for liberty.

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