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Posted: 1/12/2007 10:32:51 AM EDT

No googling...

We grudge no man a fortune in civil life if it is honorably obtained and well used. It is not even enough that it should have been gained without doing damage to the community. We should permit it to be gained only so long as the gaining represents benefit to the community. This, I know, implies a policy of a far more active governmental interference with social and economic conditions in this country than we have yet had, but I think we have got to face the fact that such an increase in governmental control is now necessary.

ANSWER: Theodore Roosevelt - 1910

Posted: 1/12/2007 10:34:34 AM EDT

[#1]

Paris Hilton?

Posted: 1/12/2007 10:37:11 AM EDT

[#2]

MLK?

Posted: 1/12/2007 10:37:50 AM EDT

[#3]

Marx?

Posted: 1/12/2007 10:37:54 AM EDT

[#4]

I was a little surprized by the answer to that.

Posted: 1/12/2007 10:38:13 AM EDT

[#5]

Was said by the WORST president ever. I'll leave someone else the fun of guessing whom that was...

- CD

Posted: 1/12/2007 10:39:12 AM EDT

[#6]

Quoted:
I was a little surprized by the answer to that.

I'm not suprised in the least little bit that he said that -- not even slightly.

- CD

Posted: 1/12/2007 10:39:23 AM EDT

[#7]

LBJ?

Posted: 1/12/2007 10:39:40 AM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:
Paris Hilton?

Posted: 1/12/2007 10:41:20 AM EDT

[#9]

i'm temped to say TDR (or FDR)....but its been a while since i heard that quote

Posted: 1/12/2007 10:43:28 AM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:

Quoted:
I was a little surprized by the answer to that.

I'm not suprised in the least little bit that he said that -- not even slightly.

- CD

Frankly I am surprised that any POTUS would say such a thing.
Makes me woder just how differently things might have gone for this country if a few things played out differently.

Posted: 1/12/2007 10:47:01 AM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:
I was a little surprized by the answer to that.

Me too.

Posted: 1/12/2007 10:48:22 AM EDT

[#12]

It was either THEODORE ROOSEVELT or HITLER.

Posted: 1/12/2007 10:51:20 AM EDT

[#13]

While I totally disagree with those thoughts, ~~you have to think about what was happening in the country at the time. Does not excuse it, but I really don't know what that must have been like (and I hope we never do).~~

Edited to add, I thought it was FDR, ignore the above.

Posted: 1/12/2007 10:53:44 AM EDT

[#14]

What speech/letter/interview/etc was that taken from?

Posted: 1/12/2007 10:54:56 AM EDT

[#15]

Quoted:
What speech/letter/interview/etc was that taken from?

The New Nationalism.

Posted: 1/12/2007 11:06:49 AM EDT

[#16]

Ah, so instead we got W. Wilson. Hurray us!

The candidate pool was about as attractive in 1912 as it is in 2008.

Posted: 1/12/2007 11:07:44 AM EDT

[#17]

Quoted:
LBJ?

Posted: 1/12/2007 11:40:43 AM EDT

[#18]

I would have sworn it was FDR and not Teddy that popped off with that stupidity.

- CD

Posted: 1/12/2007 11:43:58 AM EDT

[#19]

Teddy????
man, I would have guessed FDR, but never Teddy.
ugh

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