[Theodore Roosevelt by Theodore Roosevelt]@TWC D-Link bookTheodore Roosevelt CHAPTER III 76/80
There are no rules to object to. Brogan.
Oh! [nonplussed; but immediately recovering himself]. Thin I move that they be amended until there ar-r-re! The deadlock was tedious; and we hailed with joy such enlivening incidents as the above. During my three years' service in the Legislature I worked on a very simple philosophy of government.
It was that personal character and initiative are the prime requisites in political and social life.
It was not only a good but an absolutely indispensable theory as far as it went; but it was defective in that it did not sufficiently allow for the need of collective action.
I shall never forget the men with whom I worked hand in hand in these legislative struggles, not only my fellow-legislators, but some of the newspaper reporters, such as Spinney and Cunningham; and then in addition the men in the various districts who helped us.
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