There can be no delusion more fatal to the Nation than the delusion that the standard of profits, of business prosperity, is sufficient in judging any business or political question--from rate legislation to municipal government.
Roosevelt warns against the dangerous belief that profit alone is a sufficient measure of success in business or governance.
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Character must show itself in the man's performance both of the duty he owes himself and of the duty he owes the State.
I wish to say that the Progressive Party is making its appeal to all our fellow citizens without any regard to their creed or to their birthplace.
Shame on the man of cultivated taste who permits refinement to develop into a fastidiousness that unfits him for doing the rough work of a workaday world.
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