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Quotation from Citizenship in a Republic ("The Man in the Arena") by Theodore Roosevelt
“I believe that a man must be a good patriot before he can be, and as the only possible way of being, a good citizen of the world.”
Citizenship in a Republic ("The Man in the Arena"), Paragraph 33 (African and European Addresses (1910))
His answer to what he calls a foolish cosmopolitanism.
Citation: "I believe that a man must be a good patriot before he can be, and as the only possible way of being, a good citizen of the world." — Theodore Roosevelt, Citizenship in a Republic ("The Man in the Arena"), Paragraph 33 (African and European Addresses (1910)). (id citizenship-in-a-republic-q8)
Portrait: 1910-04-26 - Théodore-Roosevelt regardant voler Dubonnet à Issy, Agence Rol, Public domain.
