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Men, I am glad to have seen you, and I don’t think that anywhere under our flag there could be found a better set of clean-cut, vigorous, self-respecting American citizens of the very type that makes one proudest to be an American.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

He expresses pride in the character and integrity of American citizens serving in the military.

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