Teddy Roosevelt: “I do not wish us ever as a nation to take a position from which we…”

On the recordJune 15, 1903

I do not wish us ever as a nation to take a position from which we have to retreat.

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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: “I do not wish us ever as a nation to take a position from which we have to retreat.”