Our judicial system is sound and effective at core, and it remains, and must ever be maintained, as the safeguard of those principles of liberty and justice which stand at the foundation of American institutions; for, as Burke finely said, when liberty and justice are separated, neither is safe.
Roosevelt asserts the importance of the judicial system as a protector of liberty and justice, referencing Burke's wisdom.
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