The fact that our national needs forbid us to be niggardly in providing whatever is actually necessary to our well-being, should make us doubly careful to husband our national resources, as each of us husbands his private resources, by scrupulous avoidance of anything like wasteful or reckless expenditure.
Roosevelt advocates for careful management of national resources to avoid wasteful expenditures.
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I care for the great deeds of the past chiefly as spurs to drive us onward in the present.
I wish to say that the Progressive Party is making its appeal to all our fellow citizens without any regard to their creed or to their birthplace.
France is one of these nations. For her to sink would be a loss to all the world.
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