11 October, 2008
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt
Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt's career included being Police Commissioner of New York City, Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Navy, and a commanded of the Rough Riders during the Spanish-American War. He was also the 26th President of the United States, a Progressive Republican who broke the power of monopolies.
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."
"No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it"
From "The Man with the Muck-rake"
"More important then aught else is the development of the broadest sympathy of man for man. The welfare of the wage-worker, the welfare of the tiller of the soil, upon these depend the welfare of the entire country; their good is not to be sought in pulling down others; but their good must be the prime object of all our statesmanship.
Materially we must strive to secure a broader economic opportunity for all men, so that each shall have a better chance to show the stuff of which he is made.
Spiritually and ethically we must strive to bring about clean living and right thinking. We appreciate also that the things of the soul are immeasurably more important.
The foundation-stone of national life is, and ever must be, the high individual character of the average citizen."
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