Political Quotes

On the recordJanuary 29, 1905
If either the business world or the world of labor loses its head, then it has lost something which cannot be made good by any governmental effort.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at the Forty-Second Anniversary Banquet of the Union League Club in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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