Teddy Roosevelt: “In the war you had to have patriotism, but there was but little to be…”

On the recordMay 7, 1903

In the war you had to have patriotism, but there was but little to be made of the man who was patriotic but who had a tendency to run away.

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Republican · New York

Source

Address at Pomona College in Claremont, California

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