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Teddy Roosevelt: “It is this very freedom—this absence of State and National restraint—that has tended to create a small class of…”

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It is this very freedom—this absence of State and National restraint—that has tended to create a small class of enormously wealthy and economically powerful men whose chief object is to hold and increase their power.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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He critiques the concentration of wealth and power resulting from unrestricted freedom.

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