Teddy Roosevelt: “Let us above all things beware in using the knife not to handle it so…”

On the recordAugust 27, 1902

Let us above all things beware in using the knife not to handle it so that it will be dangerous to the community even more than to the evil attacked.

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Republican · New York

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Remarks in Manchester, New Hampshire

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Teddy Roosevelt: “Let us above all things beware in using the knife not to handle it so that it will be dangerous to the community even…”