Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

I want, on behalf of this nation, the peace that comes not to the coward, who cringes for it, but the peace of the just man armed, who asks it as a right.

Context

Remarks at a Luncheon in New Orleans, Louisiana

10/25/1905

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