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If our opponents should come into power they could not reduce our Army below its present size without greatly impairing its efficiency and abandoning part of the national duty.
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gutenberg.orgTeddy Roosevelt: “If our opponents should come into power they could not reduce our Army below its present size without greatly impairing…”
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Roosevelt warns against the potential consequences of reducing the Army's size.
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