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Teddy Roosevelt: “Constant care should be taken to guard against unnecessary increase of the ordinary expenses of government.”

On the recordDecember 5, 1904
Constant care should be taken to guard against unnecessary increase of the ordinary expenses of government.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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