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Theodore Roosevelt
Jamestown Exposition April 26,1907
Jamestown Exposition April 26,1907
We of this mighty western Republic have to
grapple with the dangers that spring from popular self-government tried on a
scale incomparably vaster than ever before in the history of mankind, and from
an abounding material prosperity greater also than anything which the world has
hitherto seen.
As regards the first set of dangers, it
behooves us to remember that men can never escape being governed. Either they
must govern themselves or they must submit to being governed by others. If from
lawlessness or fickleness, from folly or self-indulgence, they refuse to govern
themselves, then most assuredly in the end they will have to be governed from
the outside. They can prevent the need of government from without only by
showing that they possess the power of government from within, a sovereign can
not make excuses for his failures; a sovereign must accept the responsibility
for the exercise of the power that inheres in him, and where, as is true in our
Republic, the people are sovereign, then the people must show a sober
understanding and a sane and steadfast purpose if they are to preserve that
orderly liberty upon which as a foundation every republic must rest.
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