Posted on 02/27/2014 3:39:44 AM PST by Master Zinja
If we lose the virile, manly qualities, and sink into a nation of mere hucksters, putting gain over national honor, and subordinating everything to mere ease of life, then we shall indeed reach a condition worse than that of the ancient civilizations in the years of their decay.
-Theodore Roosevelt, "The Law of Civilization and Decay", The Forum (January 1897), reprinted in American Ideals (1926), vol. 13 of The Works of Theodore Roosevelt, national ed., chapter 15, pp. 259–60. (From Wikipedia)
A government designed to secure unalienable rights has devolved into one of plunder as a right.
Screw Teddy Roosevelt.
-— Republican Teddy Roosevelt was the John McCain of his day -—
In my youth, I blamed FDR for everything, but Progressivism really started in earnest at the turn of the century.
FDr,Obama other socialist monsters
theodore was a creep too and gave us the national parks( i’m not for gov owning land) but didn’;t do as lasting damage as wilson
FDR,Obama, and Wilson 3 socialist/democrat monsters that have destroyed the USA
theodore was a creep too and gave us the national parks( i’m not for gov owning land) but didn’;t do as lasting damage as wilson
“Yet the more I see the better satisfied I am that I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.”
-T. Roosevelt
Upon his return from Europe
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