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Teddy Roosevelt: “It is true we may suffer in such cases less than other communities, but all nations are damaged more or less by the…”

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It is true we may suffer in such cases less than other communities, but all nations are damaged more or less by the state of uneasiness and apprehension into which an outbreak of hostilities throws the entire commercial world.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York
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Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt acknowledges that all nations suffer from the instability caused by war, regardless of their direct involvement.

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