Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

The business of finding a scapegoat to send loose into the wilderness is neither honorable nor dignified for a self-respecting people to be engaged in.

Context

Address at the Banquet Tendered Him by the Union League Club of San Francisco, California

05/13/1903

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