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Teddy Roosevelt: “The fact that our national needs forbid us to be niggardly in providing whatever is actually necessary to our…”

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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.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Roosevelt advocates for careful management of national resources to avoid wasteful expenditures.

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