Political Quotes

On the recordSeptember 5, 1902
You cannot put a stop to or reverse the industrial tendencies of the age, but you can control and regulate them and see that they do no harm.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Remarks in Wheeling, West Virginia

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