Teddy Roosevelt: “I should be ashamed to see this nation play the part of a weakling.”

On the recordJanuary 29, 1905

I should be ashamed to see this nation play the part of a weakling.

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Republican · New York

Source

Commencement Address at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland

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