The good results of seventy men studying local methods and local needs on the ground, in the departments, does not lie only in the knowledge gained; you render a great service by making the men with whom you come in contact feel that they actually share in this movement.
Roosevelt highlights the value of collaboration and local knowledge in improving government services.
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A broken promise is bad enough in private life. It is worse in the field of politics.
I speak of the men of the past partly that they may be honored by our praise of them, but more that they may serve as examples for the future.
France is one of these nations. For her to sink would be a loss to all the world.
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