The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1904-09-29
i'Tsrse Thoughts" OF Theodore Roosevelt.

come to my knowledge the effect has
been healthy for the community 49,"
The Winning of the West vol. /, p 1872.
ALL SELFIsH-"A merchant or man
ufacturer works his business, as a iule,
purely for his own benefit, without
any regard whatever for the communi-
ty at large. Essay on Machine
Politics" in American Ideals, p. 100.
OPPOSES Projection political
economists have pretty generally
agreed that protection is vicious in
theory and harmful in practice. =
Thomas H. Benton, p, 81,
AMERICA AN INTERNATIONAL Con- !
sTABLE-"Any country whose people
conduct themselves we'll can count on
our hearty friendliness. If nation
shows that it knows how to act with
decency in industrial and political mat
ters, if it keeps order and pays its OBJ
legations, then it need fear no interfer-
ence from the United States. Letter
to the Cuban Dinner, May 20, 1904.
"SoUND PoLIoY" FOR A NATION. .
Gin old days, when first came to
Little Missouri, there was a motto on
the range; Never draw unless you
mean to shoot. That is a pretty sound
policy for a nation in foreign affairs.
Speech at Tacoma, Wash, May %,
1908.
CARRY "BIe STICK. "-"There is q
homely old adage which runs: Speak
softly and carry big stick; you will
| go far If the American nation will
speak softly and yet build and keep at
a pitch of the highest training thoro-
ughly efficient navy, the Monroe doc
trine will go far. Speech at Chicago,
April 2, 1902.
No PERMANENT PEACE WANTED. -
eff we ever grow to regard peace as a
permanent condition, and feel that we
can afford to let the keen, fearless,
virile qualities of heart and mind and
body sink into disuse, we will prepare
the way for inevitable and shameful
disaster in the future. The peace
which breeds timidity and sloth is a
curse and not blessing Speech be-
fore Republican Club, New York City,
Feb. 10, 1899.
JEFFERsoN-"Timid and shifty doc
trinaire" life of Benton, p. 49,; "The
most incapable executive who ever
filled the presidents chair. Naval
War Of 1912, p. 455).
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS" Naval War
p. 455); results of his administration
brought "shame and disgrace to Ameri-
ca" in the war of 1S12-("The Winning
of the West" vol. 4, p. 1869.
MoNRoE-"With no special ability
Benton, p. Az; as secretary of war un.
der Madison, triumph of imbecility
to the last Naval War, p. 456).
JACKSON Ignorant Benton, p
73).
VAN BUREN, Faithfully served thu
mammon of unrighteousness. He sue
ceeded because Of, and not in spite o
his moral shortcomings. Benton, p
1870.
HARRISON, TAYLOR, fillmore
Q "Small Presidents. Benton, p. 1922
TYIER-"H has been called medi
OGRE man; but this is unwarranted fiat
O terry. He was politician of monu
mental littleness. His chief menta
and moral attributes were peevishness
fire. full obstinacy, inconsistency, etc.
Benton, p. $500.
. PoLK-"Excepting Tyler, the yer,
smallest of the line of small president
who came in between Jackson and Lin
coin. * Benton, p. 1922.
g PIERCE" Small politician, of 10y
!, capacity and mean surroundings. y
Benton, p. 345).
BUoHANAN-One of the "Small Presi
dents. > Benton, p. 1922.
= That the president does not excoriat
his predecessors in office alone is show
. by the Contempt for Many Others,
e as follows:
" CONGRESS- ust at this momen
congress, in Washington, seems to hav
q made up its mind that having provide
:. for the fact that we must take care G
the Philippines and Cuba, there is nc
{ to be any army with which to take car
70 OF it, and that the armed resistance
to he made by proclamation. Well,
is little soul-harrowing to have t
s. deal with cattle who take that view c
~ the responsibility Of the nation. y
Speech of governor of New York befor
: Syracuse chamber of commerce, 1895
! New YoRK-"New York has Away
" had n low political standard, one or th
Il other of its great parties and tactic
- organizations, and often both or all {
them, being at all times most unloyel
bodies of excessively unwholesom
70 moral tone. Life of Benton, p. 81.
r, THE QUAKERs "a class of profei
q sional non combatants is as hurtful t
the real healthy growth of q nation &
- is a class of fire eaters, for weakness
a or folly is nationally as bad as vic,
IN or worse, and in the long rnn n Onakt