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Teddy Roosevelt: “If we stand idly by, if we seek merely swollen, slothful ease and ignoble peace, if we shrink from the hard contests…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1900
If we stand idly by, if we seek merely swollen, slothful ease and ignoble peace, if we shrink from the hard contests where men must win at hazard of their lives and at the risk of all they hold dear, then the bolder and stronger peoples will pass us by, and will win for themselves the domination of the world.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

In "The Strenuous Life," Roosevelt warns that national complacency and a pursuit of easy peace will lead to being surpassed by more vigorous nations.

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