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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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