To drive out of a community the men of means and the men who take the lead in business enterprises would probably entail, as one of its first results, the starvation of a considerable portion of the remainder of the population.
Roosevelt highlights the potential consequences of driving wealthy individuals out of a community, including widespread poverty.
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I care for the great deeds of the past chiefly as spurs to drive us onward in the present.
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