The purely sentimental historians take no account of the difficulties under which we labored, nor of the countless wrongs and provocations we endured, while grossly magnifying the already lamentably large number of injuries for which we really deserve to be held responsible.
Roosevelt criticizes sentimental historians for ignoring the complexities of historical injustices.
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