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- GLC#
- GLC06058
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 1914/11/14
- Author/Creator
- Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
- Title
- to Samuel M. Crothers
- Place Written
- New York, New York
- Pagination
- 1 p. : Height: 24.6 cm, Width: 19.7 cm
- Primary time period
- Progressive Era to New Era, 1900-1929
- Sub-Era
- The Politics of Reform
Typed in blue ink on printed personal stationery of Roosevelt, with changes in his hand. Crothers worked at Houghton Mifflin & Co. Discusses theory of "divine right" and states "with all our faults, we govern ourselves better than any one man, or group of men can govern us." He also writes, "Democracy is a form of government fit for people of high moral caliber."
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