If this country is really to go forward along the path of social and economic justice, there must be a new party of nationwide and non-sectional principles, a party where the titular national chiefs and the real state leaders shall be in genuine accord, a party in whose counsels the people shall be supreme, a party that shall represent in the nation and the several states alike the same cause, the cause of human rights and of governmental efficiency. At present both the old parties are controlled by professional politicians in the interests of the privileged classes, and apparently each has set up as its ideal of business and political development a government by financial despotism tempered by make-believe political assassination. Democrat and Republican alike, they represent government of the needy many by professional politicians in the interests of the rich few. This is class government, and class government of a peculiarly unwholesome kind. . Theodore Roosevelt
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Theodore Roosevelt said, "In the face of this plain fact there is only one conclusion to draw. We must have a new party." ; Theodore Roosevelt said, "In the face of this plain fact there is only one conclusion to draw. We must have a new party." He was referring to the Democratic Party and Republican parties. We need a new party to represent the people, instead of the powerful few who have been in charge up to this day. Now that we have two major parties, they are controlled by money and influence, which is what creates a government that favors the rich few at the expense of everyone else.

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