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Teddy Roosevelt: “The kind of business prosperity that blunts the standard of honor, that puts an inordinate value on mere wealth, that…”

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The kind of business prosperity that blunts the standard of honor, that puts an inordinate value on mere wealth, that makes a man ruthless and conscienceless in trade, and weak and cowardly in citizenship, is not a good thing at all, but a very bad thing for the Nation.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Roosevelt critiques a form of business success that undermines moral standards and citizenship.

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