Teddy Roosevelt: “A lie is no more to be excused in politics than out of politics.”

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A lie is no more to be excused in politics than out of politics.

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Republican · New York

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Roosevelt asserts that dishonesty in politics is as unacceptable as dishonesty in any other aspect of life.

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