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If the spirit of sedition, of lawlessness, and of wild individualism and separatism had conquered, then our history would merely have anticipated the dismal tale of the Spanish-American republics.
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gutenberg.orgTeddy Roosevelt: “If the spirit of sedition, of lawlessness, and of wild individualism and separatism had conquered, then our history…”
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Roosevelt warns that the triumph of lawlessness would have led to a bleak historical outcome for the West.
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