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Teddy Roosevelt: “Every foreign war in which we have engaged has cost us many times the amount which, if wisely expended during the…”

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Every foreign war in which we have engaged has cost us many times the amount which, if wisely expended during the preceding years of peace on the Regular Army, would have insured the war ending in but a fraction of the time and but for a fraction of the cost that was actually the case.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt claims that foreign wars have cost the nation far more than what could have been spent on military preparedness during peacetime.

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