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Teddy Roosevelt: “We urgently need in this country methods for expediting punishment, methods for doing away with delay, methods which…”

On the recordOctober 24, 1905
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.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

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

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