Teddy Roosevelt: “Venomous envy of wealth is simply another form of the spirit which in…”

On the recordJuly 6, 1905

Venomous envy of wealth is simply another form of the spirit which in one of its manifestations takes the shape of cringing servility toward wealth.

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Republican · New York

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Remarks Before the National Educational Association in Ocean Grove, New Jersey

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