RADICAL REPUBLICAN: THE NEW NATIONALISM
. . . . the history of America is now the central feature of the history of the world; for the world has set its face hopefully toward our democracy
. . . our government, National and State, must be freed from the sinister influence or control of special interests.
. . . The true friend of property, the true conservative, is he who insists that property shall be the servant and not the master of the commonwealth; who insists that the creature of man's making shall be the servant and not the master of the man who made it.
. . . .I believe that the officers, and, especially, the directors, of corporations should be held personally responsible when any corporation breaks the law.
. . . .Nothing is more true than that excess of every kind is followed by reaction; a fact which should be pondered by reformer and reactionary alike. We are face to face with new conceptions of the relations of property to human welfare, chiefly because certain advocates of the rights of property as against the rights of men have been pushing their claims too far.
. . . .This New Nationalism regards the executive power as the steward of the public welfare. It demands of the judiciary that it shall be interested primarily in human welfare rather than in property, just as it demands that the representative body shall represent all the people rather than any one class or section of the people.
Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
Thanks to Maha for the point

PEOPLE FORGET
The First Roosevelt Was a Republican. Theodore Roosevelt was a man of a certain class. Given the age, that class was given over to classing other people. While TR later made some most unfortunate statements regarding immigrants and foreigners during the stressful times of turbulence that were the end of the First World War and the rise into the chaos that followed it, the first Roosevelt also knew what forces worked against the common man. An uncommon man himself, Theodore Roosevelt well understood that what afflictions tormented the less well off would in time corrupt and ruin the society of the rich as well.
Some have forgotten that today. Our nation is a common wealth. We float on the tide of terrifying times. The ship of state needs a captain who knows well the sea and the rocks near shore as he pilots our boat to safety.
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