Moreover, though it is criminal for a nation not to prepare for war, so that it may escape the dreadful consequences of being defeated in war, yet it must always be remembered that even to be defeated in war may be far better than not to have fought at all.
Roosevelt asserts that nations must prepare for war to avoid defeat, but fighting is preferable to inaction.
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I deeply appreciate your letter, and I realize to the full the heavy responsibility it puts upon me.
Therefore I hope that so far as possible the people may be given the chance, through direct primaries, to express their preference as to who shall be the nominee of the Republican Presidential Convention.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles.
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