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Teddy Roosevelt: “It is well for us that when there comes a great work in peace or in war we have the army as an instrument for it.”

On the recordMay 19, 1902
It is well for us that when there comes a great work in peace or in war we have the army as an instrument for it.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at the Centennial Meeting of the Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church at Carnegie Hall in New York City

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