Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

Above all we should treat with a peculiarly contemptuous abhorrence the man who in a spirit of sheer cynicism debauches either our business life or our political life.

Context

Remarks at the Fair Grounds in Atlanta, Georgia

10/19/1905

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