Teddy Roosevelt: “The republics of antiquity and of the middle ages all failed and…”

On the recordMay 22, 1903

The republics of antiquity and of the middle ages all failed and almost invariably because a bitter factional war began among them.

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Republican · New York

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Remarks in Everett, Washington

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Teddy Roosevelt: “The republics of antiquity and of the middle ages all failed and almost invariably because a bitter factional war began…”