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Quotation from Inaugural Address (Theodore Roosevelt) by Theodore Roosevelt
“But justice and generosity in a nation, as in an individual, count most when shown not by the weak but by the strong”
Inaugural Address (Theodore Roosevelt), Second paragraph (Project Gutenberg #4938)
Roosevelt argues that moral restraint matters most when a nation has the power not to exercise it.
Citation: "But justice and generosity in a nation, as in an individual, count most when shown not by the weak but by the strong" — Theodore Roosevelt, Inaugural Address (Theodore Roosevelt), Second paragraph (Project Gutenberg #4938). (id theodore-roosevelt-inaugural-address-q7)
