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As so often in our history, we erred, not through a spirit of over-aggressiveness, but through a willingness to trust to peaceful measures instead of proceeding to assert our rights by force.
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Roosevelt reflects on the tendency in American history to avoid aggression in favor of peaceful resolutions, which he sees as a mistake.
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