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Teddy Roosevelt: “I think that we of the United States cannot keep too fresh in our minds the fact that the men responsible for the…”

On the recordApril 6, 1904
I think that we of the United States cannot keep too fresh in our minds the fact that the men responsible for the government are not the representatives of the people, but the people themselves.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Remarks at a Dinner of the Periodical Publishers' Association of America

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