Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

He will not and cannot do this if our laws are so defective that in the sharp competition of the business world the conscientious man is put at a disadvantage by his less scrupulous fellows.

Context

Remarks at the Forty-Second Anniversary Banquet of the Union League Club in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

01/29/1905

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