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Theodore Roosevelt

CHAPTER XII
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There should be a sharp discrimination against such judges.

They claim immunity from criticism, and the claim is heatedly advanced by men and newspapers like those of whom I speak.

Most certainly they can claim immunity from untruthful criticism; and their champions, the newspapers and the public men I have mentioned, exquisitely illustrate by their own actions mendacious criticism in its most flagrant and iniquitous form.
But no servant of the people has a right to expect to be free from just and honest criticism.

It is the newspapers, and the public men whose thoughts and deeds show them to be most alien to honesty and truth who themselves loudly object to truthful and honest criticism of their fellow-servants of the great moneyed interests.
We have no quarrel with the individuals, whether public men, lawyers or editors, to whom I refer.

These men derive their sole power from the great, sinister offenders who stand behind them.


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