1President Theodore Roosevelt is remembered for his speech. His lines included"speak softly and carry a big stick".He also said, "The government is us; we are the government, you and I. "Roosevelt was also a conservationist and his skills came into play in support of that cause. At the...
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Presidential historian David McCullough tells Morley Safer about Theodore Roosevelt's famous Milwaukee stump speech - made with a bullet lodged in his chest.
Landmark Document in American History Roosevelt, “Strenuous Life, 1899,” Speech Text THEODORE ROOSEVELT, “THE STRENUOUS LIFE” (10 April 1899) [1] In speaking to you, men of the greatest city of the West, men of the State which gave to the country Lincoln and Grant, men who pre-...
Unreasonable Men: Theodore Roosevelt and the Republican Rebels Who Created Progressive Politics by Michael Wolraich (review) His sympathies clearly lie with La Follette, whom he portrays as the original Progressive reformer, while Roosevelt, despite his Progressive call to arms with his Osawatomie, ...
“If you can dream it, you can do it.” ~Walt Disney “Action is the foundational key to all success.” ~Pablo Picasso “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” ~Theodore Roosevelt “You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” ~Eleanor Roosevelt SCM INFO...
I have elsewhere and at length (e.g.,hereandhere) explained and explored the wrongness and consequences of free-speech absolutism. Here, I will focus on the question posed by the title of this post: Why freedom of speech, that is, what is the good of it?
President Theodore Roosevelt once said, Every man owes a part of his time and money to the business or industry in which he is engaged. No man has a moral right to withhold his support of an organization that is striving to improve conditions within his sphere." And it was in that spiri...
President Theodore Roosevelt is remembered for his speech. His lines included "speak softly and carry a big stick". He also said, "The government is us; we are the government, you and I." Roosevelt was also a conservationist and his skills came into play in support of that cause. ...
Given on Sunday, April 15, 1906, at the laying of the corner stone of the Cannon Office Building in Washington, DC. Over a century ago Washington laid the corner stone of the Capitol in what was then little more than a tract of wooded wilderness here bes