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“This country has nothing to fear from the crooked man who fails. We put him in jail. It is the crooked man who succeeds who is a threat to this country.”

Theodore Roosevelt

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When a dishonest person fails, we can easily deal with them. But if a dishonest person succeeds, they become a danger to everyone.

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