Question

What did theodore roosevelt mean when he said, "when i say i believe in a square deal, i do not mean to give every man the best hand...all i mean is that there shall be no crookedness in the dealing"?

Answer 1

He meant that he will make it so that the country gives people equal opportunities, not the same things. He wasn't about giving people things for free or making it a communist/socialist state. What he wanted was to make sure that the companies like the medical and pharmaceutical companies, or the banks, weren't exploiting people.