Posted on 02/22/2010 9:03:02 PM PST by pissant
Today marks the beginning of a year-long celebration commemorating the one hundred twenty-fifth anniversary of the birth of Theodore Roosevelt, one of America's heroes and larger-than-life personalities.
Born with considerable physical handicaps, Theodore Roosevelt overcame his afflictions and drew strength from his triumph over personal adversity, a strength he would later devote to the public good. Through sheer willpower, he became a rugged outdoorsman and active conservationist, the organizer of the Rough Riders, a fearless crusader against corruption and for law and order, an explorer, a social reformer and author, our youngest President, and the first of our citizens to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. He was truly an American Renaissance man. His life was a voyage of discovery guided by deep principle and private morality.
He was also our first modern chief executive, rejecting isolationism and leading America into active participation in world decisions for which we shared responsibility. Never again would the leaders of the Old World act without regard to this new world power called the United States. He understood our people and our spirit. He identified the national character with the words, "Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood—the virtues that made America." And I might add, the virtues that made Theodore Roosevelt.
Now, Therefore, L Ronald Reagan, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim October 27, 1982, as a Day of National Celebration of the one hundred twenty-fifth anniversary of the birth of Theodore Roosevelt. I ask all Americans to join me in commemorating the birth of this fearless American hero. Let us redouble our efforts to confront adversity and promote the virtues and ideals of Americanism.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-seventh day of October, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-two, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and seventh.
RONALD REAGAN
BULLAY! BULLAY! BULLAY!
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TR has always been a hero of mine.
Did he do things that weren’t conservative?
Yup. All leaders make some compromise.
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We could do with some of TR’s backbone nowadays.
Iran would be a smoldering parking lot by now
“It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.”
(THEODORE ROOSEVELT Paris Sorbonne,1910)
There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all.
Good post, pissant. Thanks.
HOORAY Glenn Beck! Glenn Beck is OUTSTANDING!
Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
Theodore Roosevelt
lol.
TR went third party. Glenn Beck doesn’t approve.
TR was a progressive who believed corporate profits should be used to help the community.
Nah.
“A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy” - TR
“A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.” - Thomas Jefferson
TR had alot of beliefs, but being a marxist wasn’t one of them. He was only “3rd party” for a short stretch of his life. He also helped a more conservative GOP make quite a comeback against Wilson’s shenanigans in 1918.
You have to know what he was referring to by progressive. It wasn’t the destruction of capitalism, by any stretch.
As president, Reagan often mentioned his admiration for FDR’s spirit of leadership. On a trip back to his alma mater, Eureka College, in 1984, he reminded his listeners what it was like to experience the Great Depression, and how the Fireside Chats had been so reassuring. “All of us who lived through those years,” he instructed them, “remember the drabness the depression brought. But we remember, too, how people pulled together, that sense of community and shared values, that belief in American enterprise and democracy that saw us through. It was that engrained American optimism, that sense of hope Franklin Roosevelt so brilliantly summoned and mobilized.”
Source: http://www.firstprinciplesjournal.com/articles.aspx?article=1082&loc=r
Uh oh. Reagan said something good about FDR. Guess we all have to stop criticizing him now?
Everybody who can, ought. I don’t know if he is speaking of deliberate murder of the profoundly disabled.
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