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Theodore Roosevelt

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

Theodore Roosevelt

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Theodore Roosevelt is saying that Germany has turned brutal violence into a systematic method during the war. He believes the conflict must continue until Germany is completely removed, comparing it to a harmful disease affecting the world.

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