Political Quotes

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Distrust the man who would persuade you that he would do you good by trying to do any other man harm.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt advises skepticism towards those who claim to help one group by harming another.

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A broken promise is bad enough in private life. It is worse in the field of politics.

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