On the recordOctober 17, 1905
Next only to a man's having worn the blue comes the fact of the man's having worn the gray to entitle him to honor in my sight.
Source
presidency.ucsb.eduNext only to a man's having worn the blue comes the fact of the man's having worn the gray to entitle him to honor in my sight.
Remarks in Capitol Square in Richmond, Virginia
Share
More from Teddy Roosevelt
A broken promise is bad enough in private life. It is worse in the field of politics.
Shame on the man of cultivated taste who permits refinement to develop into a fastidiousness that unfits him for doing the rough work of a workaday world.
The good citizen will demand liberty for himself, and as a matter of pride, he will see to it that others receive the liberty which he thus claims as his own.