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Teddy Roosevelt: If you get any man who is willing to do wrong for you, if it is to his interests, he will do wrong to you.

On the recordOctober 20, 1905
If you get any man who is willing to do wrong for you, if it is to his interests, he will do wrong to you.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Remarks in St. Augustine, Florida

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