WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Tue, 14 Jul 2026 23:08:56 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg caste – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Roosevelt, Theodore -- Letter to S. Stanwood Menken (10 Jan 1917) https://wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/23660/ https://wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/23660/#respond Wed, 29 Jan 2014 13:23:43 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=23660 Everything is un-American that tends either to government by a plutocracy, or government by a mob. To divide along the lines of section or caste or creed is un-American. All privilege based on wealth, and all enmity to honest men merely because they are wealthy, are un-American — both of them equally so. Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood — the virtues that made America. The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.


Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901–1909)
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