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To this aim we should endeavor not only to avert bloodshed, but, above all, effectively to strengthen the forces of right.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt emphasizes the need to strengthen the forces of right to prevent bloodshed.

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