“ No brave and good man can properly shirk death; and no criminal who has earned death should be allowed to shirk it. ”
Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography (1913). copy citation
| Author | Theodore Roosevelt |
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| Source | Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography |
| Topic | death criminal |
| Date | 1913 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm |
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“But inasmuch as, without hesitation, in the performance of duty, I have again and again sent good and gallant and upright men to die, it seems to me the height of a folly both mischievous and mawkish to contend that criminals who have deserved death should nevertheless be allowed to shirk it. No brave and good man can properly shirk death; and no criminal who has earned death should be allowed to shirk it.
One of the best men with our regiment was the British military attache, Captain Arthur Lee, an old friend. The other military attaches were herded together at headquarters and saw little. Captain Lee, who had known me in Washington, escaped and stayed with the regiment.”
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