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On the recordJuly 6, 1905
The chief harm done by the men of swollen fortune to the community is not the harm that the demagogue is apt to depict as springing from their actions.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Remarks Before the National Educational Association in Ocean Grove, New Jersey

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