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“In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”
“I believe in nationalism as the absolute prerequisite to internationalism. I believe in patriotism as the absolute prerequisite to the larger Americanism. I believe in Americanism because unless our people are good Americans first, America can accomplish little or nothing worth accomplishing for the good of the world as a whole.”
“It is not what we have that will make us a great nation; it is the way in which we use it.”
I am currently reading a great book on Teddy’s corollary, “Command of Office: How War, Secrecy, and Deception Transformed the Presidency from Theodore Roosevelt to George W. Bush,” which is available for under $4 from Amazon. Also see Bill Marina and David Beito’s excellent piece on this at History News Network.
Also see Reason’s Michael McMenamin on Teddy as a misunderstood moderate and foreign policy hero, then see Cato’s heroic Michael Chapman on Teddy as a “poor friend of the Constitution, capitalism, and peace.” John Denson’s Costs of War is also a superb resource.
