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Teddy Roosevelt: “We should make it fully understood by the workingmen—by the men of small means—that we will do everything in our power…”

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We should make it fully understood by the workingmen—by the men of small means—that we will do everything in our power for them except what is wrong; but that we will do wrong for no man—neither for them nor for any one else.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt commits to supporting working men while refusing to do wrong for anyone.

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