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Teddy Roosevelt: “Unless we could build up a great nation, and unless we possessed the power and self-restraint to frame an orderly and…”

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Unless we could build up a great nation, and unless we possessed the power and self-restraint to frame an orderly and stable government, and to live under its laws when framed, the long years of warfare against the armies of the king were wasted and went for naught.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt argues that the sacrifices made during the war would be meaningless without a stable government.

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