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Teddy Roosevelt: “Not only there does not exist now, but there never has existed in recent times, any nation so wholly free as this is…”

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Not only there does not exist now, but there never has existed in recent times, any nation so wholly free as this is from any danger of excessive militarism, so wholly free from any danger of an undue growth of the military spirit.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

He asserts that the U.S. is free from the threat of excessive militarism, a point he believes is historically accurate.

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