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Quotes from Address to the Knights of Columbus — Theodore Roosevelt

1858–1919 United States

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What would be done to us in the name of war if these things are done to us in the name of neutrality?

Address to the Knights of Columbus (1915)

Political movements directed against men because of their religious belief, and intended to prevent men of that creed from holding office, have never accomplished anything but harm.

Address to the Knights of Columbus (1915)

We should freely take from every other nation whatever we can make of use, but we should adopt and develop to our own peculiar needs what we thus take, and never be content merely to copy.

Address to the Knights of Columbus (1915)

We cannot afford to run the risk of having in time of war men working on our railways or working in our munition plants who would in the name of duty to their own foreign countries bring destruction to us.

Address to the Knights of Columbus (1915)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Theodore Roosevelt (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.