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Teddy Roosevelt: “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…”

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

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

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