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I ask that the same lesson that you of the Civil War applied practically in your own persons during and since that war be applied by the rest of us in civil life.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt urges applying the lessons learned from the Civil War to civil life.

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