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Teddy Roosevelt: “To break the Tenth Commandment is no more moral now than it has been for the past thirty centuries.”

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To break the Tenth Commandment is no more moral now than it has been for the past thirty centuries.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt asserts the timeless moral significance of adhering to the Tenth Commandment.

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