The men with the muckrakes are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck, and to look upward to the celestial crown above them...if they gradually grow to feel that the whole world is nothing but muck their power of usefulness is gone.
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Original Citation
Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr. "The Man with the Muckrake." Laying of the cornerstone of the House Office Building. 14 Apr. 1906, House Office Building, Washington, DC, USA.
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Current Citation
Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr. "The Man with the Muckrake." The Muckrakers, edited by Arthur Weinberg and Lila Weinberg. University of Illinois Press, 2001.
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