Teddy Roosevelt: “To pander to depravity inevitably means to increase the depravity.”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1900

To pander to depravity inevitably means to increase the depravity.

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Republican · New York

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In "The Strenuous Life," Roosevelt states a principle that accommodating moral corruption only serves to exacerbate it.

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