The dull, purblind folly of the very rich men, their greed and arrogance, and the corruption in business and politics, have tended to produce a very unhealthy condition.
Theodore Roosevelt
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…and there will be some fool who will say: “Well, yes, may be he is a little crooked; but he is ‘dreadful smart.’” That kind of praise speaks ill for the man praised and ill for the man who praises him. We cannot afford, as citizens of this republic, to tolerate the successful scoundrel any more than the unsuccessful scoundrel. Other nations with other forms of government may be able to get along after a fashion without the average citizen being straight and decent. We cannot.
–TR