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Theodore Roosevelt has been conventionally thought of as a vehement opponent of populism, i.e. of United States People's Party. Nevertheless, labels aside, the 26th President of the United States did not shy away from expressing populist views in constitutional matters. For example, in a famous speech delivered in 1912 and recorded by Thomas Edison, Roosevelt quipped:
<blockquote>I believe that the majority of the plain people of the United States will, day in and day out, make fewer mistakes in governing themselves than any smaller class or body of men, no matter what their training, will make in trying to govern them.<ref>[http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsrs/trrs.1147 Theodore Roosevelt, ''The right of the people to rule'', audio recording, Library of Congress] = ''The works of Theodore Roosevelt'', Volume 19, New York : C. Scribner's sons, 1925, p. 200.</ref></blockquote>
==Eleftherios Venizelos==
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