On the recordJanuary 1, 1900
In the breasts of the men who saw Appomattox there was no room for the growth of the jealous, greedy, sullen envy which makes anarchy, which has bred the red Commune.
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gutenberg.orgTeddy Roosevelt: “In the breasts of the men who saw Appomattox there was no room for the growth of the jealous, greedy, sullen envy which…”
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Roosevelt argues that the shared experience of the Civil War instilled in veterans a civic virtue that precluded the destructive envy leading to anarchy and communism.
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