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Our loyalty is due entirely to the United States. It is due to the President only and exactly to the degree in which he efficiently serves the United States. It is our duty to support him when he serves the United

Our loyalty is due entirely to the United States. It is due to the President only and exactly to the degree in which he efficiently serves the United States. It is our duty to support him when he serves the United States well. It is our duty to oppose him when he serves it badly. This is true about Mr. Wilson now and it has been true about all our Presidents in the past. It is our duty at all times to tell the truth about the President and about every one else, save in the cases where to tell the truth at the moment would benefit the public enemy.

Theodore Roosevelt
Loyalty, Past, Support
Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

We face the future with our past and our present as guarantors of our promises; and we are content to stand or to fall by the record which we have made and are making.

Theodore Roosevelt
Fall, Past, Promise
Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “Works: Presidential addresses and state papers, Dec. 3, 1901, June 1910, and European addresses. 8 v”

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

Theodore Roosevelt
Freedom, Mean, Past

I do not believe that any man can adequately appreciate the world of to-day unless he has some knowledge of -- a little more than a slight knowledge, some feeling for and of -- the history of the world of the past.

Theodore Roosevelt
Believe, Past, Men
Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

It is of little use for us to pay lip-loyalty to the mighty men of the past unless we sincerely endeavor to apply to the problems of the present precisely the qualities which in other crises enabled the men of that day to meet those crises.

Theodore Roosevelt
Loyalty, Past, Men
Theodore Roosevelt (2004). “Letters and Speeches”

Every man among us is more fit to meet the duties and responsibilities of citizenship because of the perils over which, in the past, the nation has triumphed; because of the blood and sweat and tears, the labor and the anguish, through which, in the days that have gone, our forefathers moved on to triumph.

Theodore Roosevelt
Responsibility, Past, Men
Speech at Naval War College, Newport, R.I., June 1897 See Byron 28; Winston Churchill 9; Winston Churchill 12; Donne 4