Teddy Roosevelt: “Republics have flourished before now, and have fallen; and they have usually fallen because there arose within them…”

“Republics have flourished before now, and have fallen; and they have usually fallen because there arose within them parties that represented either the unscrupulous rich or the unscrupulous poor, and that persuaded the majority of the people to substitute loyalty to the one class for loyalty to the people as a whole.”