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Teddy Roosevelt: But no people worth preserving ever existed nor will exist that was not able to fight if the need arose, and so with the…

On the recordMay 29, 1905
But no people worth preserving ever existed nor will exist that was not able to fight if the need arose, and so with the individual.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at the Unveiling of the Statue of General Henry W. Slocum in Brooklyn, New York City

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