Teddy Roosevelt: “The sin is, of course, peculiarly revolting when coupled with…”

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The sin is, of course, peculiarly revolting when coupled with hypocrisy, when it is committed in the name of morality.

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Republican · New York

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Roosevelt finds hypocrisy particularly egregious when it masquerades as moral righteousness.

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Teddy Roosevelt: “The sin is, of course, peculiarly revolting when coupled with hypocrisy, when it is committed in the name of morality.”