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Teddy Roosevelt: “The war with Spain was the most absolutely righteous foreign war in which any nation has engaged during the nineteenth…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1900
The war with Spain was the most absolutely righteous foreign war in which any nation has engaged during the nineteenth century, and not the least of its many good features was the unity it brought about between the sons of the men who wore the blue and of those who wore the gray.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

In "The Strenuous Life," Roosevelt praises the Spanish-American War for its righteousness and its role in fostering national unity between former Civil War adversaries.

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