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Teddy Roosevelt: “The consistent policy of the National Government, so far as it has the power, is to hold in check the unscrupulous man…”

On the recordDecember 6, 1903
The consistent policy of the National Government, so far as it has the power, is to hold in check the unscrupulous man, whether employer or employee; but to refuse to weaken individual initiative or to hamper or cramp the industrial development of the country.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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