Political Quotes

On the recordApril 5, 1905
Most emphatically we cannot, as good Americans, bear hostility to any rich man as such any more than to any poor man as such.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Address to the Texas State Legislature in Austin

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