Political Quotes

On the recordJune 27, 1905
We can by statute establish only those exceedingly rough lines of morality, the overpassing of which means that the man is in jeopardy of the constable or the sheriff.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Remarks at the Alumni Dinner of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts

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