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Teddy Roosevelt: “The trouble is in the confusion of ideas which results in trying to apply the same principle to two totally different…”

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The trouble is in the confusion of ideas which results in trying to apply the same principle to two totally different classes of cases.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt critiques the application of uniform principles to diverse situations, highlighting the importance of context in governance.

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