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Nevertheless, we as Americans must now face the fact that this great freedom which the individual property-owner has enjoyed in the past has produced evils which were inevitable from its unrestrained exercise.
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gutenberg.orgTeddy Roosevelt: “Nevertheless, we as Americans must now face the fact that this great freedom which the individual property-owner has…”
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Roosevelt acknowledges the negative consequences of unrestrained individual property rights.
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