Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

In the tests prescribed under regulations governing the employment of unskilled labor the element of age shall be omitted in the case of sol...

If he did not have a fighting edge, his patriotism did not count.

Now that was not enough, no matter how patriotic a man was in 1861.

The worst crime against this nation which can be committed by any man is the crime of dishonesty, whether in public life, or whether in priv...