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Theodore Roosevelt

CHAPTER XV
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I advise you to stay around among the neighbors, and then you may keep out of jail.

That is the only way some of us can keep out of jail." I emphatically disagree with what seems to be the morality inculcated in this statement, which is that a man is expected to do and is to be pardoned for doing all kinds of immoral things if he does them alone and does not expect to be found out.

Surely it is not necessary, in insisting upon proper publicity, to preach a morality of so basely material a character.
There is much more that Mr.Wilson says as to which I do not understand him clearly, and where I condemn what I do understand.

In economic matters the course he advocates as part of the "New Freedom" simply means the old, old "freedom" of leaving the individual strong man at liberty, unchecked by common action, to prey on the weak and the helpless.

The "New Freedom" in the abstract seems to be the freedom of the big to devour the little.


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