“Teddy Tweets”

Theodore Roosevelt’s Weekly Wisdom

Presented by The Ripon Society

“As the years roll by, and as all of us, wherever we dwell, grow to feel . . . a peculiar sense of pride in the mightiest of the mighty men . . . the man whose blood was shed for the union of his people and for the freedom of a race, Abraham Lincoln.”

Theodore Roosevelt

Speech in Hodgenville, Kentucky

February 12, 1909

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