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Teddy Roosevelt: “I think that one lesson every one who was capable of learning any thing learned from his experience in that war was the…”

On the recordMay 20, 1902
I think that one lesson every one who was capable of learning any thing learned from his experience in that war was the old, old lesson that we need to apply in peace quite as much—the lesson that the man who does not care to do any act until the time for heroic action comes, does not do the heroic act when the time does come.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Remarks on the Occasion of the Unveiling of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument at Arlington, Under the Auspices...

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