Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

It is far more important that they should conduct their business affairs decently than that they should spend the surplus of their fortunes in philanthropy.

Context

Remarks at the Alumni Dinner of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts

06/27/1905

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