Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States. He is noted for his energetic personality, range of interests and achievements, leadership of the Progressive Movement, and his “cowboy” image and robust masculinity. Roosevelt’s achievements as a naturalist, explorer, hunter, author, and soldier are as much a part of his fame as any office he held as a politician. Biography
Theodore Roosevelt
From Brainy Quote
My dear Mr. Davenport:
I am greatly interested in the two memoirs you have sent me. They are very instructive, and, from the standpoint of our country, very ominous. You say that these people are not themselves responsible, that it is “society” that is responsible. I agree with you if you mean, as I suppose you do, that society has no business to permit degenerates to reproduce their kind. It is really extraordinary that our people refuse to apply to human beings such elementary knowledge as every successful farmer is obliged to apply to his own stock breeding. Any group of farmers who permitted their best stock not to breed, and let all the increase come from the worst stock, would be treated as fit inmates for an asylum. Yet we fail to understand that such conduct is rational compared to the conduct of a nation which permits unlimited breeding from the worst stocks, physically and morally, while it encourages or connives at the cold selfishness or the twisted sentimentality as a result of which the men and women ought to marry, and if married have large families, remain celebrates or have no children or only one or two. Some day we will realize that the prime duty – the inescapable duty – of the good citizen of the right type is to leave his or her blood behind him in the world; and that we have no business to permit the perpetuation of citizens of the wrong type.
Faithfully yours,
Theodore Roosevelt
H/T: News Alert
August 27, 2012 at 11:14 am
TR was a figure with great charisma. But the underlying principles that he believed in were just below the surface.
August 27, 2012 at 12:16 pm
It is time that america think about what is going down. This whorl thing has been in the works for over one hundred years.
August 26, 2012 at 2:52 pm
So, all of the Conservative today that reference *cleaning the gene pool* are Progressives? Interesting..
August 26, 2012 at 6:51 pm
That is a new one to me. If anyone thinks that taking one trillion out of Medicare isn’t cleaning the gene pool, I don’t know what is. Forget premies getting long care in the early days of lifel
August 26, 2012 at 9:58 am
Eugenics was all the rage back then, and looks like TR was on board. He was the proto-progressive after all!
August 26, 2012 at 12:41 pm
I would have thought it was Wilson who was the big progressive. How the democrats morphed into the progressives is a tale yet to be figured out.
August 25, 2012 at 11:18 pm
It started with the Darwins, then the Huxleys–these eugenicists are prevalent. That’s why Ken Ham calls his ministry, Answers in Genesis because the “we evolved from slime” theory is responsible for the rationalizing of superior races. The alternate name for Origin of the Species was “Preservation of the Favored Races in the Struggle for Life.”
I recently found out something interesting about Teddy, he handed Korea over to the Japs in 1905 in exchange for the Phillippines. I’m sure they wised that he would have followed G. Washington’s advice.
August 26, 2012 at 8:27 am
It is interesting as well his “invisible government” quote. We cannot say they have not been upfront about their agenda, it is that we are not getting the info, and it has been buried.
August 25, 2012 at 2:03 pm
As more truth comes out, those we held in high regard are shown to be a bit twisted, the Scripture fact: ‘the bent of sinful nature’. These very souls are the ones who ‘think’ they are above the slime, when in fact they promote a ‘perverted slime’ that’s much worse and justify themselves as they rationalize their usurp godlike power and control.
Sharing two links:
Body parts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3q9jQ4LzmYE
The DNA Eugenics: http://newine.wordpress.com/2012/08/20/the-word-made-flesh-reflections-on-recent-advances-in-dna-data-encoding/
Nothing new under the sun type of disillusion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDCWnvBk-DI
August 25, 2012 at 8:01 pm
Thanks for the links.
August 25, 2012 at 10:10 am
I knew the eugenics movement has been around a long time; but I did not know that Teddy was a part of it so blatantly. Today, people like Bill Gates and George Soros are keeping the torch burning.I fear that someday technology will give them the tools to carry it out secretly.
August 25, 2012 at 10:12 am
I didn’t know it as well. He was high on Executive Orders as well, but that is for another post.
August 25, 2012 at 7:20 pm
I didn’t know this about TR either, but it appears as if this movement is bigger than we thought it was.
August 25, 2012 at 7:37 pm
I sure missed this in school. The progressives were never discussed.