Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
We stand at Armageddon, and we battle for the Lord.
He was battling for delegates. Most Republicans favored Roosevelt as did many Democrats, but at that time Presidential candidates of the parties were chosen by the party delegates—not the people. Roosevelt was too reformist minded and independent for most Republicans of the day. So the party operatives bypassed TR and selected the unpopular William Howard Taft instead. Roosevelt then ran as a third party candidate (the Bull Moose Party) and outpolled Taft in the election, but Democrat Woodrow Wilson won as Roosevelt and Taft split the Republican vote.
Theodore Roosevelt, 1858-1919, 26th President of the United States (Republican, NY), Speech to the Republican Convention, 1912
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Describing his post in the Sudan:
The Sunna and Hadith are Islamic Reverential Texts. The “final battle” is prophesised just as in the Christian Book of Revelations such a final battle between good and evil is predicted (Armageddon), and is believed to be in the future by some fundamentalist Christians. One difference however is that a small population of Christians believe this literally, while most Muslims believe in the great battle to come. However in this case, the battle is between the Muslims and the evil heretics—all others.
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.