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Teddy Roosevelt: “The great lawyer who employs his talent and his learning in the highly remunerative task of enabling a very wealthy…”

On the recordJune 27, 1905
The great lawyer who employs his talent and his learning in the highly remunerative task of enabling a very wealthy client to override or circumvent the law is doing all that in him lies to encourage the growth in this country of a spirit of dumb anger against all laws.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Remarks at the Alumni Dinner of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts

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