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I believe in a graduated income tax on big fortunes, and in . . . a graduated inheritance tax on big fortunes, . . . increasing rapidly in amount with the size of the estate.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Theodore Roosevelt
Age: 60 †
Born: 1858
Born: October 27
Died: 1919
Died: January 6
26Th U.S. President
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The performance of duty, and not an indulgence in vapid ease and vapid pleasure, is all that makes life worth while.
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Those who oppose all reform will do well to remember that ruin in its worst form is inevitable if our national life brings us nothing better than swollen fortunes for the few and the triumph in both politics and business of a sordid and selfish materialism.
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Every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may require it.
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In name we had the Declaration of Independence in 1776 but we gave the lie by our acts to the words of the Declaration of Independence until 1865 and words count for nothing except in so far as they represent acts.
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Bodily vigor is good, and vigor of intellect is even better, but far above is character.
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The worst thing I can do is nothing.
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