Teddy Roosevelt: “It is a travesty upon the great and holy names of liberty and freedom…”

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It is a travesty upon the great and holy names of liberty and freedom to permit them to be invoked in such a cause.

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Republican · New York

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Roosevelt criticizes the misuse of the concepts of liberty and freedom in support of anarchism.

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Teddy Roosevelt: “It is a travesty upon the great and holy names of liberty and freedom to permit them to be invoked in such a cause.”