Teddy Roosevelt: “Such a record makes the death rate in all our foreign wars utterly…”

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Such a record makes the death rate in all our foreign wars utterly trivial by comparison.

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Roosevelt argues that the death rate from industrial accidents dwarfs that of foreign wars.

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Teddy Roosevelt: “Such a record makes the death rate in all our foreign wars utterly trivial by comparison.”