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Teddy Roosevelt: “These persons would do irreparable harm to any nation that adopted their principles, and even as it is they seriously…”

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These persons would do irreparable harm to any nation that adopted their principles, and even as it is they seriously hamper the cause which they advocate by tending to render it absurd in the eyes of sensible and patriotic men.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt warns that misguided principles of peace can harm nations and undermine the cause of peace itself.

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