Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

We urgently need in this country methods for expediting punishment, methods for doing away with delay, methods which will secure to the public an even chance with the criminal—I do not ask any more.

Context

Remarks at a Luncheon at Arkansas Consistory in Little Rock, Arkansas

10/24/1905

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