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In the event of war it would be far better to have no ships at all than to have ships of a poor and ineffective type, or ships which, however good, were yet manned by untrained and unskillful crews.
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gutenberg.orgTeddy Roosevelt: “In the event of war it would be far better to have no ships at all than to have ships of a poor and ineffective type, or…”
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Roosevelt argues that having ineffective ships is worse than having no ships at all in wartime.
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