But, after all is said, the fact remains that we have to deal, not with what, under other circumstances, the Americans might have done, but with what the British actually did; and for this there can be many apologies, but no sufficient excuse.
Roosevelt emphasizes the importance of acknowledging the actual actions of the British during the conflict rather than hypothetical alternatives.
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Like all other good citizens, I accept the result with entire good humor and contentment.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles.
Shame on the man of cultivated taste who permits refinement to develop into a fastidiousness that unfits him for doing the rough work of a workaday world.
I speak of the men of the past partly that they may be honored by our praise of them, but more that they may serve as examples for the future.
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