"Anything that encourages pauperism, anything that relaxes the manly fiber and lowers self-respect, is an unmixed evil. The soup kitchen style of philanthropy is as thoroughly demoralizing as most forms of vice or oppression, and it is of course particularly revolting when some corporation or private individual undertakes it, but even in a spirit of foolish charity, but for purposes of self-advertisement."
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Theodore Roosevelt in: The strenuous life; essays and addresses, Best Books on, 1 January 1906, p. 108
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