Teddy Roosevelt: “Do not make threats at all, but if it becomes necessary to say what…”

On the recordJune 15, 1903

Do not make threats at all, but if it becomes necessary to say what, in a certain contingency we are going to do, say it and then do it.

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Republican · New York

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Remarks at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville

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Teddy Roosevelt: “Do not make threats at all, but if it becomes necessary to say what, in a certain contingency we are going to do, say it…”