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On the recordOctober 22, 1905
The same spirit that made them valiant in battle made them, when they came home from battle, take up the strings of their lives where they had dropped them when the appeal to arms came, and do their best in walks of peace.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Remarks in Flomaton, Alabama

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