There are a good many baseless alarms which some worthy people feel from time to time in this country, and which other less worthy people affect to feel, but of all foolish crimes, of all baseless figments of a disturbed imagination, the cry of militarism in this country is the most foolish and the most baseless.
Roosevelt dismisses the fear of militarism in America as unfounded and exaggerated.
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One of the chief principles for which I have stood, and for which I now stand, and which I have always endeavored and always shall endeavor to reduce to action, is the genuine rule of the people.
I care for the great deeds of the past chiefly as spurs to drive us onward in the present.
Shame on the man of cultivated taste who permits refinement to develop into a fastidiousness that unfits him for doing the rough work of a workaday world.
Like all other good citizens, I accept the result with entire good humor and contentment.
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