"PATRIOTISM means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President or any other public official save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him in so far as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth—whether about the President or about anyone else—save in the rare cases where this would make known to the enemy information of military value which would otherwise be unknown to him."

The man was a strange mixture of right and wrong.

Yup. But the "rights" far outweighed the few "wrongs" he committed while POTUS!
And on this point, no one could have stated it better.

Being Patriotic MEANS being honest with yourself!
That requires self examination of one's own biases and a critical look at the BASIS used for the judgment you used when casting your last vote.
AND it requires speaking UP and OUT publicly in a patriotic effort to inform the less informed of the risk of electing unfit leaders.

TR was (IMO) one of our FINEST Presidents.

TY Wylie! Nice post!

Posted by laramiebob on 4/19/2020 10:15:00 AM (view original):
Yup. But the "rights" far outweighed the few "wrongs" he committed while POTUS!
And on this point, no one could have stated it better.

Being Patriotic MEANS being honest with yourself!
That requires self examination of one's own biases and a critical look at the BASIS used for the judgment you used when casting your last vote.
AND it requires speaking UP and OUT publicly in a patriotic effort to inform the less informed of the risk of electing unfit leaders.

TR was (IMO) one of our FINEST Presidents.

I was more talking about his entire career. He was a good President. He had some issues both before and after his Regency.

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
Theodore Roosevelt

“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
Theodore Roosevelt

“Believe you can and you're halfway there.”
Theodore Roosevelt

“When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.”
Theodore Roosevelt

“To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”
Theodore Roosevelt

“In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”
Theodore Roosevelt

We could do this all day. They're are literally hundreds of them. Goodnight wylie.

Posted by DougOut on 4/19/2020 1:05:00 PM (view original):
“To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”
Theodore Roosevelt

All great quotes BTW, but this one is nice, timing wise.

I would suggest that we ALL apply this one to our decision/choice when we vote for POTUS this year.

The man in office now fails miserably on BOTH counts------------mental acuity AND morals!
And is thus, the menace that TR warns us about.
TY Doug!

Posted by laramiebob on 4/19/2020 1:12:00 PM (view original):

Posted by DougOut on 4/19/2020 1:05:00 PM (view original):
“To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”
Theodore Roosevelt

All great quotes BTW, but this one is nice, timing wise.

I would suggest that we ALL apply this one to our decision/choice when we vote for POTUS this year.

The man in office now fails miserably on BOTH counts------------mental acuity AND morals!
And is thus, the menace that TR warns us about.
TY Doug!

WRONG Larry. He's way smarter than your average President. You wanna compare his mental acuity to JOE BIDEN?

TRUMP doesn't grope young girls, sniff women's hair or have a rape charge pending. He does have hairy legs.
TY Larry!