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>>58574 Inspired by the USSTheodoreRoosevelt. Roosevelt, 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909:
“The government is us; WE are the government, you and I."
“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.”
“Any man who tries to excite class hatred, sectional hate, hate of creeds, any kind of hatred in our community, though he may affect to do it in the interest of the class he is addressing, is in the long run with absolute certainly that class's own worst enemy.”
“In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American…There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag… We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language… and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”
“This country has nothing to fear from the crooked man who fails. We put him in jail. It is the crooked man who succeeds who is a threat to this country.”
“Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of today.”
“The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others.”
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Moar here: https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/44567.Theodore_Roosevelt?page=4
https://theodoreroosevelt.org/content.aspx?page_id=22&club_id=991271&module_id=338381
>>58608 Hiya and Goood Morning, Morning. The countdown to modem has begun. Hope they didn't use the USPS. Sill waiting for something to arrive that was ordered from a vendor located in the same state 16 days ago.
>>58616 Kek. Edzachary!
While looking at Roosevelt quotes, came across this one: "I don't always get shot during the middle of a speech, But when I do, I finish the damn speech." Needed some context so here it is. Remember, this is the same man who said: “Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people." The playbook has not changed in over 100 years.
"We live in a world where pundits purport that a bout of pneumonia — or even the sniffles — may make one unsuited to lead a country. Imagine what these pundits might say had they been around a little over a hundred years ago, when presidential hopeful Teddy Roosevelt gave a speech with a bullet lodged in his chest.
The date was October 14, 1912, and Teddy Roosevelt was feeling a little rough around the edges: His third-term campaign travels had worn him out, and left his throat a bit sore. Little did he know, his day was about to get worse.
That evening, Roosevelt headed to Milwaukee’s Kilpatrick Hotel for a dinner hosted by one of his supporters. Once he finished his meal, Roosevelt began making his way to the Milwaukee Auditorium, where he was to give a speech. And then a shot rang out.
Standing under five feet away, a man named John Schrank fired at the ex-president — and had someone in the crowd not bumped Schrank at just the right moment, the Bavaria-born shooter likely would have killed Roosevelt.
Instead, the bullet from Schrank’s .38 revolver headed right for the chest pocket of Roosevelt’s suit. Slowed by the folded, 50-page speech and eyeglasses case in said pocket, the bullet entered Roosevelt’s chest with less than fatal force.
Brandishing a fist-sized bloodstain from the bullet wound, Roosevelt gave a quick cough to determine if the bullet had nicked a lung. No blood appeared at his lips, and so Roosevelt insisted that his driver take him to the auditorium so he could deliver his speech.
At the time, sectarian division had brought out the worst in the Republican Party. Conservative William Howard Taft won the renomination at that year’s convention, which prompted Roosevelt to found the Progressive Party and run for president on its ticket. Republican Party stalwarts balked at Roosevelt’s move, calling him power-hungry and disrespectful to the convention that presidents may only serve two terms.
These attacks — as demonstrated by the bullet hole in Roosevelt’s chest, fired by a man who said Roosevelt shouldn’t pursue a third term — had very real consequences, and Roosevelt railed against them in his speech.
“It is a very natural thing that weak and vicious minds should be inflamed to acts of violence,” Roosevelt said. “I wish to say seriously to all the daily newspapers, to the Republicans, the Democrat, and Socialist parties, that they cannot…make the kind of untruthful, of bitter assault that they have made and not expect…brutal and violent natures, especially when the brutality is accompanied by a not very strong mind; they cannot expect that such natures will be unaffected by it.”
“I wish I were able to impress upon my people — our people, the duty to feel strongly but to speak the truth of their opponents.” "
https://allthatsinteresting.com/roosevelts-speech