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Teddy Roosevelt: “There is not a locality fitted for self-government which has not received it.”

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There is not a locality fitted for self-government which has not received it.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt asserts that every locality in the Philippines capable of self-government has already received it.

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