Theodore Roosevelt Quote

The State must be made efficient for the work which concerns only the people of the State; and the nation for that which concerns all the people. There must remain no neutral ground to serve as a refuge for lawbreakers, and especially for lawbreakers of great wealth, who can hire the vulpine legal cunning which will teach them how to avoid both jurisdictions.


The New Nationalism (1910)


The State must be made efficient for the work which concerns only the people of the State; and the nation for that which concerns all the people....

The State must be made efficient for the work which concerns only the people of the State; and the nation for that which concerns all the people....

The State must be made efficient for the work which concerns only the people of the State; and the nation for that which concerns all the people....

The State must be made efficient for the work which concerns only the people of the State; and the nation for that which concerns all the people....