Teddy Roosevelt: “Above all, remember this: that the most unsafe adviser to follow is…”

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Above all, remember this: that the most unsafe adviser to follow is the man who would advise us to do wrong in order that we may benefit by it.

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Republican · New York

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Roosevelt warns against following bad advice that leads to wrongdoing.

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