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Teddy Roosevelt: “The sound, wholesome common-sense of the American people fortunately renders such movements, as a rule, innocuous; and…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1900
The sound, wholesome common-sense of the American people fortunately renders such movements, as a rule, innocuous; and this is, in reality, the prime reason why republican government prospers in America, as it does not prosper, for instance, in France.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

From an essay on the strenuous life, this passage attributes the success of American republican government to the common sense of its people.

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