Teddy Roosevelt: “The surest way of blunting the public conscience in dealing with…”

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The surest way of blunting the public conscience in dealing with corruption is to confuse the public mind as to who is corrupt and who is not.

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Republican · New York

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Roosevelt warns against diluting the public's understanding of corruption.

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