Teddy Roosevelt: “The feeling of all good citizens that such a hideous crime shall not be hideously punished by mob violence is due not in…”

“The feeling of all good citizens that such a hideous crime shall not be hideously punished by mob violence is due not in the least to sympathy for the criminal, but to a very lively sense of the train of dreadful consequences which follows the course taken by the mob in exacting inhuman vengeance for an inhuman wrong.”