Teddy Roosevelt: “If we drove out a medieval tyranny only to make room for savage…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1900

If we drove out a medieval tyranny only to make room for savage anarchy, we had better not have begun the task at all.

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Republican · New York

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Roosevelt warns that military intervention is only justified if it leads to stability, not merely replacing one form of misrule with another.

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Teddy Roosevelt: “If we drove out a medieval tyranny only to make room for savage anarchy, we had better not have begun the task at all.”