Teddy Roosevelt: “We wish for no victories but those of peace; for no territory except…”

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We wish for no victories but those of peace; for no territory except our own; for no sovereignty except the sovereignty over ourselves.

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Republican · New York

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Roosevelt expresses a desire for peaceful victories and self-governance rather than territorial expansion.

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