Teddy Roosevelt: “The nation, like the individual, can not commit a crime with impunity.”

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The nation, like the individual, can not commit a crime with impunity.

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Republican · New York

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Roosevelt asserts that both individuals and the nation must face consequences for committing crimes.

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