Teddy Roosevelt: “Too often we have seen public sentiment condoning the acts both of the thief and the liar (I am using ugly words…”

“Too often we have seen public sentiment condoning the acts both of the thief and the liar (I am using ugly words, gentlemen, and I am using them because I wish to denote in the sharpest and in the most ugly fashion ugly attributes), when these acts are shifted a little so that they can be hidden under other names.”