Political Quotes

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It is useless to try to generalize about conquests simply as such in the abstract; each case or set of cases must be judged by itself.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt emphasizes the need to evaluate each conquest on its own merits rather than generalizing about them.

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