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Teddy Roosevelt: “We need good laws, we need honest and upright administration of the laws, but we need as the fundamental prerequisite…”

On the recordSeptember 8, 1902
We need good laws, we need honest and upright administration of the laws, but we need as the fundamental prerequisite for good government a high average standard of good citizenship in the men who make the laws and stand back of them.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Remarks in Asheville, North Carolina

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