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Teddy Roosevelt: “It is infinitely better when needed social and civic changes can be brought about as the result of natural and healthy…”

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It is infinitely better when needed social and civic changes can be brought about as the result of natural and healthy growth than when they come with the violent dislocation and widespread wreck and damage inevitably attendant upon any movement which is revolutionary in its nature.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt advocates for gradual social and civic changes rather than abrupt, revolutionary upheavals.

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