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Teddy Roosevelt: “If when people wax fat they kick, as they have kicked since the days of Jeshurun, they will speedily destroy their own…”

On the recordAugust 22, 1902
If when people wax fat they kick, as they have kicked since the days of Jeshurun, they will speedily destroy their own prosperity.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Remarks in Providence, Rhode Island

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