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Teddy Roosevelt: “But for their steadfast prowess in the greatest crisis of our history, all our annals would be meaningless, and our…”

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But for their steadfast prowess in the greatest crisis of our history, all our annals would be meaningless, and our great experiment in popular freedom and self-government a gloomy failure.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt asserts that without the bravery of veterans, the American experiment in democracy would have failed.

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