Categories: Fact Check, Debates
October 7, 2008
Our intrepid librarian Barbara Van Woerkom notes a misquote from John McCain:
It's not "walk" softly or "talk" softly, like McCain said, but "Speak softly and carry a big stick", quoted by Theodore Roosevelt in a speech, April 2, 1903, Chicago. From the Columbia World of Quotations, via Bartleby.com
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