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THE NATION'S DEBT TO ITS HEROES

Every great nation owes to the men whose lives have formed part of its greatness not merely the material effect of what they did, not merely the laws they placed upon the statute books or the victories they won over armed foes, but also the immense but indefinable moral influence produced by their deeds and words themselves upon the national character. It is not only the country which these men helped to make and helped to save that is ours by inheritance; we inherit also all that is best and highest in their characters and in their lives.

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THEODORE ROOSEVELT

THE AMERICANISM OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT

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THE BACKGROUND

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