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Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there be within the more there must be without.
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gutenberg.orgTeddy Roosevelt: “Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there be…”
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Roosevelt discusses the necessity of a controlling power to maintain societal order and balance.
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