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We should do all in our power to hasten the day when there shall be peace among the nations--a peace based upon justice and not upon cowardly submission to wrong.
Said by
Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt calls for a peace founded on justice rather than submission to wrongdoing.

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