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Teddy Roosevelt: “The two citizens whose welfare is in the aggregate most vital to the welfare of the Nation, and therefore to the welfare…”

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The two citizens whose welfare is in the aggregate most vital to the welfare of the Nation, and therefore to the welfare of all other citizens, are the wage-worker who does manual labor and the tiller of the soil, the farmer.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt identifies wage-workers and farmers as crucial to the nation's overall welfare.

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