[FreedomAvatar]

My disagreement with the peace-at-any-price men, the ultrapacifists, is not in the least because they favor peace. I object to them, first, because they have proved themselves futile and impotent in working for peace, and
second, because they commit what is not merely the capital error but the crime against morality of failing to uphold righteousness as the all-important end toward which we should strive ...

I have as little sympathy for them as they have for the men who deify mere brutal force, who insist that power justifies wrongdoing, and who declare that there is no such thing as international morality. But the ultra-pacifists really play
into the hands of these men. To condemn equally might which backs right and might which overthrows right is to render positive service to wrong-doers ...

To denounce the nation that wages war in self-defense, or from a generous desire to relieve the oppressed, in the same terms in which we denounce war waged in a spirit of greed or wanton folly stands on a par with denouncing equally a murderer and the policeman who, at peril of his life and by force of arms, arrests the murderer. In each case the
denunciation denotes not loftiness of soul but weakness both of mind and morals."

~Theodore Roosevelt

[BethforAmerica]

Great quote. So relevant today. Wish I knew how to forward that. I am not too familiar with the computer.

[woodyinscc]

Great post
Is it not amazing that the more things change the more they stay the same?

[RobbyS]

If the United States had entered the war in 1915,as TR wanted, we would have helped tip the balance of power at that time and perhaps saved Europe from the terrible blood letting of 1916-1917 and the collapse of the Russian Empire.