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Teddy Roosevelt: “Each community should be required to deal with all that is of merely local interest; and nothing should be undertaken by…”

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Each community should be required to deal with all that is of merely local interest; and nothing should be undertaken by the Government of the whole country which can thus wisely be left to local management.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt advocates for local management of issues that are specific to communities.

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