"The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first, the love of soft living and the get rich quick theory of life."
--Theodore Roosevelt
--Theodore Roosevelt
trombair said:"The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first, the love of soft living and the get rich quick theory of life."
--Theodore Roosevelt
alaskaflyer said:But then he had his foibles...
-"A perfectly stupid race can never rise to a very high place. The Negro, for instance, has been kept down as much by his lack of intellectual development as by anything else."
alaskaflyer said:-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.
F.W. Birdman said:But at that point, in all seriousness "Negroes" had not been allowed, for the most part to get a formal education and opportunities were not exactly abundant at management and executive levels.
TR, I think, in this statement was a victim of circumstance. Things today are much different, would you not agree? And TR, being a wise and outspoken man would, in my opinion, be the first to rescind that comment.
F.W. Birdman said:But at that point, in all seriousness "Negroes" had not been allowed, for the most part to get a formal education and opportunities were not exactly abundant at management and executive levels.
TR, I think, in this statement was a victim of circumstance. Things today are much different, would you not agree? And TR, being a wise and outspoken man would, in my opinion, be the first to rescind that comment.
F.W. Birdman said:But at that point, in all seriousness "Negroes" had not been allowed, for the most part to get a formal education and opportunities were not exactly abundant at management and executive levels.
TR, I think, in this statement was a victim of circumstance. Things today are much different, would you not agree? And TR, being a wise and outspoken man would, in my opinion, be the first to rescind that comment.