{"id":30931,"date":"2012-10-30T07:04:03","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T13:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/30\/qotd-teddy-roosevelt-on-special-interests-and-property.html"},"modified":"2012-11-01T09:17:45","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T15:17:45","slug":"qotd-teddy-roosevelt-on-special-interests-and-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/30\/qotd-teddy-roosevelt-on-special-interests-and-property.html","title":{"rendered":"QOTD: Teddy Roosevelt on Special Interests and Property"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;For every special interest is entitled to justice, but not one is entitled to a vote in Congress, to a voice on the bench, or to representation in any public office. The Constitution guarantees protections to property, and we must make that promise good. But it does not give the right of suffrage to any corporation. 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\u2019s making shall be the servant and not the master of the man who made it.&quot;<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images1-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http:\/\/wist.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/wist_title_lg.gif&#038;container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;rewriteMime=image\/*&#038;refresh=31536000&#038;resize_h=150&#038;resize_w=150&#038;no_expand=1' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/wist.info\/roosevelt-theodore\/19499\/'>Roosevelt, Theodore &#8211; \u201cThe New Nationalism,\u201d speech, Osawatomie, Kansas (31 Aug 1910) | WIST Quotations<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFor every special interest is entitled to justice, but not one is entitled to a vote in Congress, to a voice on the bench, or to representation in any public\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'><strong>Google+:<\/strong> Reshared <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/dWc26pYHXKz' target='_new'>1<\/a> times<br \/> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/dWc26pYHXKz' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;For every special interest is entitled to justice, but not one is entitled to a vote in Congress, to a voice on the bench, or to representation in any public office. 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