Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

It can only come if the officers entrusted with the administration of the law remember that it is exactly as much their duty to protect the railroad from the public as to protect the public from the railroad.

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Remarks on Receiving the Degree of Doctor of Human Letters From Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts

06/21/1905

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