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More and more our people are growing to recognize the fact that the questions which are not merely of industrial but of social importance outweigh all others; and these two questions most emphatically come in the category of those which affect in the most far-reaching way the home life of the Nation.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt asserts that social issues are increasingly recognized as critical to national home life.

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