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Teddy Roosevelt: “Other decent men are so alienated by such conduct that in their turn they abandon all effort to fight for reform…”

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Other decent men are so alienated by such conduct that in their turn they abandon all effort to fight for reform, believing reformers to be either hypocrites or fools.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt highlights how some decent men may abandon reform efforts due to disillusionment with reformers.

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