Teddy Roosevelt: “Great as is the superiority in efficiency of the men who do things…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1900

Great as is the superiority in efficiency of the men who do things over those who do not, it may be no greater than their superiority in morality.

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Republican · New York

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Roosevelt posits that those who act effectively may possess a moral superiority comparable to their practical efficiency.

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