BS: quote by Teddy Roosevelt

Subject: BS: quote by Teddy Roosevelt
From: kendall
Date: 28 Mar 03 - 05:07 PM

I hate to start a new thread, but, I ran out of ideas on how to retrieve this quote. It is to the effect that it is treason to NOT speak out if the president is wrong.

Subject: RE: BS: quote by Teddy Roosevelt
From: Ebbie
Date: 28 Mar 03 - 05:31 PM

These are all I have found:

Theodore Roosevelt Quotations
*I want to see you shoot the way you shout.
*The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight.
*Speak softly and carry a big stick.
*I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
*The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.
*It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.
*People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. . . . The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
*No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.
*No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.
*I wish that all Americans would realize that American politics is world politics.


Maybe katlaughing can find the one you're looking for?

Subject: RE: BS: quote by Teddy Roosevelt
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 28 Mar 03 - 05:40 PM

Is the quote you want in this passage, kat?:

"The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. 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. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else."

"Roosevelt in the Kansas City Star", 149
May 7, 1918

This comes from this page http://www.theodoreroosevelt.org/life/quotes.htm

Subject: RE: BS: quote by Teddy Roosevelt
From: Ebbie
Date: 28 Mar 03 - 05:44 PM

WOW!! I'm printing that one out. I'll parade it at the next peace gathering...

Thanks, McGrath. Thanks, Kendall.

Subject: RE: BS: quote by Teddy Roosevelt
From: kendall
Date: 28 Mar 03 - 08:00 PM

That's the one! Thanks so much. I have two republican friends who are screeming about those "Hollywood types" voicing their opinions like they had brains, and I just reminded them about their hero, R. Raygun. I do enjoy sticking it into people like that!

Subject: RE: BS: quote by Teddy Roosevelt
From: Bobert
Date: 28 Mar 03 - 08:46 PM

Excuse me, but is this the same Teddy Roosevelt who parked the battleship Maine in the Havana harbor, then had it blown up by our guys, and then used that as an excuse to start a war?

Just curious.

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: quote by Teddy Roosevelt
From: GUEST,Dreaded Guest
Date: 28 Mar 03 - 09:16 PM

TR said it is the duty of every American to keep his mouth OPEN. He had his moments.

Subject: RE: BS: quote by Teddy Roosevelt
From: mack/misophist
Date: 28 Mar 03 - 09:32 PM

If every president were TR, this place might be paradise. Or it might not.

Subject: RE: BS: quote by Teddy Roosevelt
From: Giac
Date: 28 Mar 03 - 09:32 PM

And where would Maxwell House Coffee have been today without his proclaiming, "Good to the last drop."

Subject: RE: BS: quote by Teddy Roosevelt
From: Forum Lurker
Date: 28 Mar 03 - 09:43 PM

Bobert-The idea that Roosevelt would have done that is fairly ridiculous. Not only would such a man never countenance the destruction of such costly weaponry, he wasn't even president at the time. He was, however, sufficiently opportunistic to send the American Pacific fleet to the Phillipinnes once war did break out, as Secretary of the Navy.

Subject: RE: BS: quote by Teddy Roosevelt
From: Rustic Rebel
Date: 28 Mar 03 - 09:47 PM

"We the people are the rightful master of both congress and the courts. Not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." Abraham Lincoln

Voice of the People
"All great questions must be raised by great voices, and the greatest voice is the voice of the people - speaking out - in prose, or painting or poetry or music; speaking out - in homes and halls, streets and farms, courts and cafes - let that voice speak and the stillness you hear will be the gratitude of mankind." John F. Kennedy
Address, New York City, January 22, 1963

"Those who make peaceful change impossible, will make violent revolution inevitable." JFK

" An individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who is willing to accept the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over it's unjustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law." Martin Luther King Jr.

"The one means that wins the easiest victory over reason; Terror and force." Adolf Hitler-1924

You can find these and many more...here. Freedom Quotes
peace. Rustic

Subject: RE: BS: quote by Teddy Roosevelt
From: Bobert
Date: 28 Mar 03 - 09:49 PM

Thanks fir refreshin' my feeble memory, F.L. Danged, I would have swore it was Teddy Roosevelt, but heck, it might have been Teddy Kennedy er Teddy Bear. It was a long time ago.

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: quote by Teddy Roosevelt
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 28 Mar 03 - 10:26 PM

I keep my memory in Google these days. And teh DT.

Subject: RE: BS: quote by Teddy Roosevelt
From: kendall
Date: 29 Mar 03 - 05:12 PM

T.R also referred to the Japanese as "Little yellow monkeys."