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Teddy Roosevelt: “In other words, he needs to carry himself in public life as he would in private life, and never permit the mistake being…”

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In other words, he needs to carry himself in public life as he would in private life, and never permit the mistake being made of divorcing public from private morality any more than of divorcing domestic from business morality.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Roosevelt advocates for consistency between public and private morality in leadership.

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