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Our mission in the world should be one of peace, but not the peace of cravens, the peace granted contemptuously to those who purchase it by surrendering the right.
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gutenberg.orgTeddy Roosevelt: “Our mission in the world should be one of peace, but not the peace of cravens, the peace granted contemptuously to those…”
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Roosevelt advocates for a peace that is earned through strength and righteousness, not through cowardice.
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