“Teddy Tweets”

Theodore Roosevelt’s Weekly Wisdom

Presented by The Ripon Society

"It is unpatriotic to refuse to do the best possible, merely because the people have not put us in the position to do what we regard as the very best."

Theodore Roosevelt

Speech at the Progressive National Committee

1916

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