Teddy Roosevelt: “Yet I think that as a people we need more to learn the lesson of…”

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Yet I think that as a people we need more to learn the lesson of Valley Forge even than that of Gettysburg.

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Republican · New York

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Roosevelt believes that the lessons learned from Valley Forge are even more crucial for the American people than those from Gettysburg.

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Teddy Roosevelt: “Yet I think that as a people we need more to learn the lesson of Valley Forge even than that of Gettysburg.”