Contrails at Mid-Day, #1, Barcelona, 2019
I have mixed feelings about Teddy Roosevelt, but I did just run across a quote of his that seems to be remarkably prescient given our current incompetent leadership in Washington, D.C.
To wit:
“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 insofar 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 anyone else.”
~~Theodore Roosevelt, Kansas City Star, May 7, 1918
[As an aside…the “walk-softly-and-carry-a-big-stick man”, once proposed (1912, Bull Moose Party) what was sort of a nascent national health care program. Imagine that.]
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