Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
1424
AUTHOR:
Theodore Roosevelt (18581919)
QUOTATION:
The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.
ATTRIBUTION:
Vice President THEODORE ROOSEVELT, remarks to Harvard and Yale undergraduates invited to Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, Long Island, June 1901.Hermann Hagedorn, The Roosevelt Family of Sagamore Hill, p. 112 (1954).