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Teddy Roosevelt: “Our judges should be held in peculiar honor; and the duty of respectful and truthful comment and criticism, which should…”

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Our judges should be held in peculiar honor; and the duty of respectful and truthful comment and criticism, which should be binding when we speak of anybody, should be especially binding when we speak of them.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Roosevelt advocates for honoring judges and emphasizes the importance of respectful discourse about them.

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