Thank you for visiting my profile page, which I have chosen to dedicate to possibly the greatest president America has ever seen, Theodore Roosevelt.
Assuming office under difficult circumstances, T.R. nevertheless governed as only he could...with his morals, convictions and with honor!
Never one to "consensus build" or to blindly feel which way the political winds were blowing, T.R. believed America's greatness was not rooted in "diversity" or in some nebulous high-mindedness, but simply in it's love of freedom...a freedom anchored in principles ordained by God and codified by our Founding Fathers in our Constitution!
T.R. has been called by many historians an "imperialist" or a "romantic." Personally, I believe he was first, last and always, a true American!
Again, thanks for visiting and God bless our Free Republic!
-- T.R. Bigstick
THEODORE ROOSEVELT 26th President of the United States (September 14, 1901 to March 3, 1909)
T.R. addresses the "Great White Fleet".
"There is a homely adage which runs: 'Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.' "
"There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americans....The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities."
"A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education."
"A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car, but if he has a university education, he may steal from the whole railroad."
"No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community."
"The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it."
"When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'"
"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing."
"Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country."
"There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head."
"To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society."
"Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive."
"The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side."
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat."
"With self-discipline most anything is possible."
"No man is above the law and no man below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it."
The Congressional Medal of Honor was awarded posthumously to Theodore Roosevelt on January 16, 2001 by President William J. Clinton for his illustrious service during the Spanish-American War.
