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Quotation from Inaugural Address (Theodore Roosevelt) by Theodore Roosevelt
“self-government throughout the world will rock to its foundations, and therefore our responsibility is heavy, to ourselves, to the world as it is to-day, and to the generations yet unborn”
Inaugural Address (Theodore Roosevelt), Third paragraph (Project Gutenberg #4938)
Roosevelt describes the stakes of the American experiment in governing a continent democratically.
Citation: "self-government throughout the world will rock to its foundations, and therefore our responsibility is heavy, to ourselves, to the world as it is to-day, and to the generations yet unborn" — Theodore Roosevelt, Inaugural Address (Theodore Roosevelt), Third paragraph (Project Gutenberg #4938). (id theodore-roosevelt-inaugural-address-q2)
