Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

I earnestly hope that the bench and the bar of the United States will in all proper ways seek to see to it that the loose customs...shall not be perverted so as to harm the whole public by giving the criminal an advantage to which he is not entitled.

Context

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

10/24/1905

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