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Teddy Roosevelt: “I feel, my dear sir, that you have made all men your debtors who believe, as all far-seeing men must, that the…”

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I feel, my dear sir, that you have made all men your debtors who believe, as all far-seeing men must, that the well-being, indeed the very existence, of the Republic depends upon that spirit of orderly liberty under the law which is as incompatible with mob violence as with any form of despotism.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Roosevelt emphasizes the necessity of orderly liberty under law for the survival of the Republic, contrasting it with mob violence.

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