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Teddy Roosevelt: “People show themselves just as unfit for liberty whether they submit to anarchy or to tyranny; and class government…”

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People show themselves just as unfit for liberty whether they submit to anarchy or to tyranny; and class government, whether it be the government of a plutocracy or the government of a mob, is equally incompatible with the principles established in the days of Washington and perpetuated in the days of Lincoln.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt argues that both anarchy and tyranny demonstrate a lack of fitness for liberty among the people.

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