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Teddy Roosevelt: “While all people are foolish if they violate or rail against the law—wicked as well as foolish, but all foolish—yet the…”

On the recordMay 25, 1903
While all people are foolish if they violate or rail against the law—wicked as well as foolish, but all foolish—yet the most foolish man in this Republic is the man of wealth who complains because the law is administered with impartial justice against or for him.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Remarks in Spokane, Washington

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