Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

We ought to say it as a reminder to us that we are not to be excused if in the future we do any less well than has been done in the past.

Remarks in Ellsworth, Maine

08/26/1902

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It is not too much to say that this amendment has been of benefit only, and could be of benefit only, to the criminal classes.

I am wholly at a loss to understand the concluding portion of the resolution.

Only criminals need fear our detectives.

The chief argument in favor of the provision was that the Congressmen did not themselves wish to be investigated by Secret Service men.