On the recordJanuary 1, 1900
The resulting government, whether of the upper or of the lower class, is not a government of the whole people, but a government of part of the people at the expense of the rest.
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Theodore Roosevelt argues that any government based on class, whether upper or lower, inherently serves a segment of the population at the cost of others.
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