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Teddy Roosevelt: “But where it is recklessly or unnecessarily used, the abuse should he censured, above all by the very men who are…”

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But where it is recklessly or unnecessarily used, the abuse should he censured, above all by the very men who are properly anxious to prevent any effort to shear the courts of this necessary power.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt warns against the reckless use of injunctions and stresses the need for accountability.

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