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On the recordAugust 29, 1902
You have got to have— you of the Civil War, you fought with widely different weapons and widely different tactics from the men who were with Ethan Allen.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Remarks to the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution in Montpelier, Vermont

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