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Teddy Roosevelt: “The regular army officer and the frontiersman are trained in fashions so diametrically opposite that, though the two men…”

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The regular army officer and the frontiersman are trained in fashions so diametrically opposite that, though the two men be brothers, they must yet necessarily in all their thoughts and instincts and ways of looking at life, be as alien as if they belonged to two different races of mankind.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt describes the stark differences in training and mindset between regular army officers and frontiersmen, highlighting their cultural divide.

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