Teddy Roosevelt: “Certain duties have fallen to us as a legacy of the war with Spain…”

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Certain duties have fallen to us as a legacy of the war with Spain, and we can not avoid performing them.

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Roosevelt recognizes the responsibilities inherited from the war with Spain that cannot be ignored.

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Teddy Roosevelt: “Certain duties have fallen to us as a legacy of the war with Spain, and we can not avoid performing them.”