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.
Told Americans how to treat people of different nations but put the burden on these people to become an American. One Flag, American. One loyality, to America
To quote him: "There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else." It still rings true today!
And in today's "woke" world, this fine upstanding red-blooded American veteran would be called, "mean," a "racist" and a "threat to American democracy."
The first "Progressive". A little man who hated everyone taller than he. Time travel is impossible. Otherwise, TR would have been strangled in his cradle, along with Thomas Woodrow Wilson, and FDR. Life is a vale of tears.
You can thank Teddy Roosevelt for the Federal Reserve, the creation of federal income tax and the inheritance tax. He had a lot of good qualities, but was a progressive control freak.
Speak softly and carry a big stick!!!
ReplyDeleteGave a speech with a bullet in his chest.
ReplyDeleteTold Americans how to treat people of different nations but put the burden on these people to become an American. One Flag, American. One loyality, to America
ReplyDeleteFrank Reagans hero.
ReplyDeleteWe could use about 500 like him in congress.
ReplyDeleteFrom your keyboard to God's inbox.....
DeleteTo quote him:
ReplyDelete"There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else."
It still rings true today!
And in today's "woke" world, this fine upstanding red-blooded American veteran would be called, "mean," a "racist" and a "threat to American democracy."
ReplyDeleteThe first "Progressive". A little man who hated everyone taller than he. Time travel is impossible. Otherwise, TR would have been strangled in his cradle, along with Thomas Woodrow Wilson, and FDR. Life is a vale of tears.
ReplyDeleteTeddy Roosevelt was slightly above average height at 5'10", just so everyone knows how much credibility to attach to your anonymous dig.
DeleteThanks Aggie.
DeleteYou can thank Teddy Roosevelt for the Federal Reserve, the creation of federal income tax and the inheritance tax.
ReplyDeleteHe had a lot of good qualities, but was a progressive control freak.