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Teddy Roosevelt: “Most emphatically we can not as good Americans bear hostility to any rich man as such any more than to any poor man as…”

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Most emphatically we can not as good Americans bear hostility to any rich man as such any more than to any poor man as such.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

He firmly states that good Americans should not harbor hostility towards individuals based on their wealth, whether rich or poor.

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