Teddy Roosevelt: “But I want, on behalf of this Nation, the peace that comes, not to the…”

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But I want, on behalf of this Nation, the peace that comes, not to the coward who cringes for it, but to the just man armed who asks it as a right.

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Republican · New York

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Roosevelt calls for a just and rightful peace, contrasting it with cowardice.

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Teddy Roosevelt: “But I want, on behalf of this Nation, the peace that comes, not to the coward who cringes for it, but to the just man…”