The wisest and most far-seeing champions of peace will ever remember that, in the first place, to be good it must be righteous, for unrighteous and cowardly peace may be worse than any war; and, in the second place, that it can often be obtained only at the cost of war.
Roosevelt outlines his philosophy of peace, asserting that true peace must be righteous and sometimes requires the cost of war.
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