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Teddy Roosevelt: “On no conceivable theory could the murder of the President be accepted as due to protest against “inequalities in the…”

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On no conceivable theory could the murder of the President be accepted as due to protest against “inequalities in the social order,” save as the murder of all the freemen engaged in a town meeting could be accepted as a protest against that social inequality which puts a malefactor in jail.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

He argues against the notion that the murder of a President could be justified as a protest against social inequality.

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