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Teddy Roosevelt: “The better educated a man is the more dangerous he is if he has no conscience.”

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The better educated a man is the more dangerous he is if he has no conscience.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt warns that education without conscience can be dangerous.

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