Political Quotes

On the recordAugust 10, 1905
We must not try to go too fast, under penalty of finding that we may be going in the wrong direction; and, in any event, we ought always to proceed by evolution and not by revolution.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Remarks in Chautauqua, New York

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