"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."
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Theodore Roosevelt, in The New Nationalism, a speech at Osawatomie, Kansas (31 August 1910)
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