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Teddy Roosevelt: “The business of finding a scapegoat to send loose into the wilderness is neither honorable nor dignified for a…”

On the recordMay 13, 1903
The business of finding a scapegoat to send loose into the wilderness is neither honorable nor dignified for a self-respecting people to be engaged in.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Address at the Banquet Tendered Him by the Union League Club of San Francisco, California

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