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On the recordOctober 20, 1905
If you go to a man and he says that if the people want it he will do something that is wrong in their interests, you can make up your minds you have got a man who, if he takes up his own interests, will do something wrong to the people in his own interests.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Remarks in St. Augustine, Florida

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