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Teddy Roosevelt: “The very rich man who conducts his business as if he believed that he were a law unto himself thereby immensely…”

On the recordJune 27, 1905
The very rich man who conducts his business as if he believed that he were a law unto himself thereby immensely increases the difficulty of the task of upholding order.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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

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