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My position as regards the monied interests can be put in a few words. In every civilized society property rights must be carefully safeguarded; ordinarily and in the great majority of cases, human rights and property rights are fundamentally and in the long run, identical; but when it clearly appears that there is a real conflict between them, human rights must have the upper hand; for property belongs to man and not man to property.   Roosevelt, Theodore

Source: THEODORE ROOSEVELT, address at the Sorbonne, Paris, France, April 23, 1910.Citizenship in a Republic, The Strenuous Life , chapter 21, pp. 51516 . · This quote is about uncategorised · Search on Google Books to find all references and sources for this quotation.

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