Teddy Roosevelt: “The anarchist is a criminal whose perverted instincts lead him to…”

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The anarchist is a criminal whose perverted instincts lead him to prefer confusion and chaos to the most beneficent form of social order.

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Republican · New York

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Roosevelt characterizes anarchists as fundamentally opposed to social order and stability.

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