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The one absolute certain way to bring this nation to ruin ... would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

The one absolute certain way to bring this nation to ruin ... would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

Theodore Roosevelt
Equality, Would Be, Way

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

Theodore Roosevelt
Patriotic, Equality, Men
Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.39, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

No man is above the law, and no man is below it.

Theodore Roosevelt
Respect, Freedom, Equality
Third Annual Message to Congress, 7 Dec. 1903. "No one is above the law" appears in the U.S. Supreme Court case Mississippi v. Johnson (1867) (arguments of counsel). Even earlier, "no officer ... is above the law" is found in a Kentucky Supreme Court case, Johnston v. Commonwealth (1809).

To divide along the lines of section or caste or creed is un-American.

Theodore Roosevelt
Equality, Racism, Lines
Theodore Roosevelt (2001). “The Selected Letters of Theodore Roosevelt”, Cooper Square Pub