Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
It is true he has never originated anything that would savor of progressiveness, but he has been close enough to this administration to know what it stands for.
TR was referring to William Howard Taft whom he had picked as his successor to the presidency.
Theodore Roosevelt, 1858-1919, 26th President of the United States (Republican, NY), Remark to Gilson Gardner, Quoted in Richard Hofstadter, The American Political Tradition, Vintage, 1948
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His indictment was rejected by the American voters when they rejected Ryan and Mitte Romney in the election of 2012. This quotation illustrates one of the problems of ideology in politics. Ryan “indicted” everything about progressivism in effect saying to the voters that there is not one progressive idea or analysis that might be useful or even important to the body politic. The same thing happens when ideologues on the left claim that there is nothing of value in conservative thinking. In reality many of the greatest facets of America can be traced to progressive ideas and many to conservative ideas. The United States has been an amalgam of political ideas taken from the entire range of human thinking the world over.
Theodore Roosevelt Jr., often referred to as Teddy or his initials T. R., was an American statesman, conservationist, naturalist, historian, and writer, who served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909. He previously served as 33rd governor of New York from 1899 to 1900 and the 25th vice president of the United States from March to September 1901. Roosevelt emerged as a leader of the Republican Party and became a driving force for anti-trust and Progressive policies.
