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"The true friend of property, the true conservative, is he who insists that property shall be the servant and not the master of the commonwealth; who insists th
by ethbro 8y ago
"The true friend of property, the true conservative, is he who insists that property shall be the servant and not the master of the commonwealth; who insists that the creature of man’s making shall be the servant and not the master of the man who made it. The citizens of the United States must effectively control the mighty commercial forces which they have called into being.
There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. To put an end to it will be neither a short nor an easy task, but it can be done."
- Theodore Roosevelt, "New Nationalism", delivered at the dedication of John Brown Memorial Park in Osawatomie, Kansas, 1910
http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/new-nationalism-speech/ http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/new-nati...
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