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Teddy Roosevelt: “Yet we can trust still less those base beings who treat politics only as a game out of which to wrong a soiled…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1900
Yet we can trust still less those base beings who treat politics only as a game out of which to wrong a soiled livelihood, and in whose vocabulary the word “practical” has come to be a synonym for whatever is mean and corrupt.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

This quote condemns corrupt politicians who view public service as a means for personal gain, equating their "practicality" with dishonesty.

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