And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
"We loved a great many things - birds and trees and books and all things beautiful and horses and rifles and children and hard work and the joy of life."
Theodore Roosevelt quote, from a 1977 Ruger print advertisement.
This may be that famous speech where he is condemning all those citizens who claim to be "hyphen- Americans." His point of view is that we are all AMERICANS (period).
He pointed someone out and they withered.
ReplyDeleteProbably some asshole commie in the crowd...
ReplyDelete"We loved a great many things -
ReplyDeletebirds and trees and books
and all things beautiful
and horses and rifles and children
and hard work and the joy of life."
Theodore Roosevelt quote, from a 1977 Ruger print advertisement.
This may be that famous speech where he is condemning all those citizens who claim to be "hyphen- Americans." His point of view is that we are all AMERICANS (period).
ReplyDeleteIt is.
DeleteIn the direction of the newspaper reporters: "Pull my finger".
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