Political Quotes

On the recordApril 13, 1906
We now administer the affairs of a Nation in which the extraordinary growth of population has been outstripped by the growth of wealth and the growth in complex interests.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Remarks at the Laying of the Cornerstone of the Office Building of the House of Representatives: \The Man with the Muck...\

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