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You tell me that saccharin is injurious to health? Dr. Rixey gives it…

Quote byTheodore Roosevelt · 1858–1919

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Response when Harvey W. Wiley opposed the use of saccharin because it is injurious to health, as quoted in The History of a Crime Against the Food Law (1929) by Harvey W. Wiley.

English (original)

You tell me that saccharin is injurious to health? Dr. Rixey gives it to me every day. Anybody who says saccharin is injurious to health is an idiot.

— Theodore Roosevelt

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