Teddy Roosevelt: “Justice—so far as it is humanly possible to give and to get justice—is…”

On the recordJanuary 29, 1905

Justice—so far as it is humanly possible to give and to get justice—is the foundation of our government.

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Republican · New York

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Remarks at the Forty-Second Anniversary Banquet of the Union League Club in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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Teddy Roosevelt: “Justice—so far as it is humanly possible to give and to get justice—is the foundation of our government.”