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Teddy Roosevelt: “Our whole experiment is meaningless unless we are to make this a democracy in the fullest sense of the word, in the…”

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Our whole experiment is meaningless unless we are to make this a democracy in the fullest sense of the word, in the broadest as well as the highest and deepest significance of the word.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt asserts that true democracy must encompass all aspects of life, not just politics.

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