Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

It was just as certain to follow the election of a class who plundered another class, whether the class thus given mastery was the poor who plundered the rich, or the class of the rich who exploited the poor.

Context

Remarks at the Chamber of Commerce Banquet in Denver, Colorado

05/07/1905

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