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Teddy Roosevelt: “We take just pride in the great deeds of the men of 1776, but we must keep in mind that the Revolutionary War would have…”

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We take just pride in the great deeds of the men of 1776, but we must keep in mind that the Revolutionary War would have been shorn of wellnigh all its results had the side of union and liberty been defeated in the Civil War.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt argues that the outcomes of the Revolutionary War were contingent on the Union's victory in the Civil War.

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