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Teddy Roosevelt Schools Nancy Pelosi on Being American
americanthinker.com ^ | 1/23/2019 | Eileen F. Toplansky

Posted on 01/23/2019 12:02:02 PM PST by rktman

In April 1894, Theodore Roosevelt, who later became the 26th president of the United States, cogently and with amazing prescience wrote about true patriotism and loyalty to America. To read his words is to understand what is happening to our country.

In the latest encounter with balkanized groups in America, at a March for Life event, Catholic students were beset by a number of people. The vitriol was evident, proving that the latter do not, as Roosevelt stated, "wish to be broadly American and national[.]" This unabated "unwholesome parochial spirit" comes "at the expense of the great nation." It is clear that this "provincial patriotism" or "inability to take a view of broad adhesion to the whole nation" is the first step to the unraveling of a nation.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: classmates
In person? I didn't know they were classmates. ;-)
1 posted on 01/23/2019 12:02:02 PM PST by rktman
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To: rktman

Nasty San Fran Nan is too immoral to be an American.


2 posted on 01/23/2019 12:03:38 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

About her abode in SF. “San fran nan. Tear down those walls!”


3 posted on 01/23/2019 12:11:05 PM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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