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Teddy Roosevelt: “The public is quite as much harmed in the one case as in the other, by the one set of wrong-doers as by the other.”

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The public is quite as much harmed in the one case as in the other, by the one set of wrong-doers as by the other.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

This statement emphasizes that all forms of wrongdoing equally harm the public.

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