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Teddy Roosevelt: “For that deed, if it is possible to exact punishment, punishment will be exacted.”

On the recordJune 24, 1902
For that deed, if it is possible to exact punishment, punishment will be exacted.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Remarks to the Spanish War Veterans in Boston, Massachusetts

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