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text: the man who spoke softly but carried a big stick bill federer remembers military philosophy of theodore roosevelt published  mins ago print theodore roosevelt 
  theodore roosevelt was born oct   his wife and mother died on valentines day feb   he wrote in his diary the light has gone out in my life depressed he left to ranch in the dakotas 
  returning to new york he entered politics and rose to assistant secretary of the navy he resigned during the spanishamerican war organized the first volunteer cavalry the rough riders and captured cubas san juan hill elected vicepresident under william mckinley he became americas youngest president in  
  republican theodore roosevelt was the first president to invite an africanamerican booker t washington to dine in the white house on oct   a southern democrat newspapers condemned him it as printed in the memphis scimitar the most damnable outrage which has ever been perpetrated by any citizen of the united states was committed yesterday by the president when he invited a n to dine with him at the white house it would not be worth more than a passing notice if theodore roosevelt had sat down to dinner in his own home with a pullman car porter but roosevelt the individual and roosevelt the president are not to be viewed in the same light 
  in  theodore roosevelt warned the thought of modern industry in the hands of christian charity is a dream worth dreaming the thought of industry in the hands of paganism is a nightmare beyond imagining the choice between the two is upon us 
  in  the new york bible society had theodore roosevelt write a message which was inscribed in a pocket new testament  book of psalms given to world war i soldiers the teachings of the new testament are foreshadowed in micahs verse micah vi  what more does the lord require of thee than to do justice and to love mercy and to walk humbly with thy god do justice and therefore fight valiantly against the armies of germany and turkey for these nations in this crisis stand for the reign of moloch and beelzebub on this earth love mercy treat prisoners well succor the wounded treat every woman as if she was your sister care for the little children and be tender to the old and helpless walk humbly you will do so if you study the life and teachings of the saviour may the god of justice and mercy have you in his keeping  signed theodore roosevelt 
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  theodore roosevelt in his book fear god and take your own part ny george h doran co  wrote 
  armenians  for some centuries have sedulously avoided militarism and war  are so suffering precisely and exactly because they have been pacifists whereas their neighbors the turks have not been pacifists but militarists t roosevelt fear god p   
  armenians have been subjected to wrongs far greater than any that have been committed since the close of the napoleonic warsthe wars of genghis khan and tamerlane in asia yet this government has not raised its hand to do anything to help the people who were wronged  this course of national infamy  began when the last administration surrendered to the peace atanyprice people and started the negotiation of its foolish and wicked all inclusive arbitration treaties individuals and nations who preach the doctrine of milkandwater invariably have in them a softness of fiber which means that they fear to antagonize those who preach and practice the doctrine of bloodandiron t roosevelt fear god p  
  american eyewitness of the fearful atrocities mr arthur h gleason new york tribune nov   serbia is at this moment passing under the harrow of torture and mortal anguish now the armenians have been butchered under circumstances of murder and torture and rape that would have appealed to an oldtime apache indian  
  even to nerves dulled and jaded by the heapedup horrors of the past year and a half the news of the terrible fate that has befallen the armenians must give a fresh shock of sympathy and indignation let me emphatically point out that the sympathy is useless unless it is accompanied with indignation and that the indignation is useless if it exhausts itself in words instead of taking shape in deeds  if this people through its government had not shirked its duty  we would now be able to take effective action on behalf of armenia 
  mass meetings on behalf of the armenians amount to nothing whatever if they are mere methods of giving a sentimental but ineffective and safe outlet to the emotion of those engaged in them  the principles of the peaceatanyprice men of the professional pacifists  will be as absolutely ineffective for international righteousness  this crowning iniquity of the wholesale slaughter of the armenians  must be shared by the neutral powers headed by the united states for their failure to protest when this initial wrong was committed  the devastation of poland and serbia has been awful beyond description and has been associated with infamies surpassing those of the dreadful religious and racial wars of the seventeenthcentury europe  
  weak and timid milkandwater policy of the professional pacifists is just as responsible as the bloodandiron policy of the ruthless and unscrupulous militarist for the terrible recrudescence of evil on a gigantic scale in the civilized world the crowning outrage has been committed by the turks on the armenians they have suffered atrocities so hideous that it is difficult to name them atrocities such as those inflicted upon conquered nations by the followers of attila and of genghis khan 
  it is dreadful to think that these things can be done and that this nation nevertheless remarks neutral not only in deed but in thought between right and the most hideous wrong neutral between despairing and hunted people people whose little children are murdered and their women raped and the victorious and evil wrongdoers  
  i trust that all americans worthy of the name feel their deepest indignation and keenest sympathy aroused by the dreadful armenian atrocities i trust that they feel  that a peace obtained without  righting the wrongs of the armenians would be worse than any war  
  wrongdoing will only be stopped by men who are brave as well as just who put honor above safety who are true to a lofty ideal of duty who prepare in advance to make their strength effective and who shrink from no hazard not even the final hazard of war if necessary in order to serve the great cause of righteousness when our people take this stand we shall also be able effectively to take a stand in international matters which shall prevent such cataclysms of wrong as have been witnesseson an even greater scale in armenia t roosevelt fear god pp  
  in his book fear god and take your part  theodore roosevelt wrote 
  christianity is not the creed of asia and africa at this moment solely because the seventh century christians of asia and africa had trained themselves not to fight whereas the moslems were trained to fight christianity was saved in europe solely because the peoples of europe fought 
  if the peoples of europe in the th and th centuries and on up to and including the th century had not possessed a military equality with and gradually a growing superiority over the mohammedans who invaded europe europe would at this moment be mohammedan and the christian religion would be exterminated 
  a contemporary of theodore roosevelt was the english author gk chesterton who wrote of western christian civilization the collected works of gk chesterton volume xx introduction and notes by james v schall ignatius press they seem entirely to forget that long before the crusaders had dreamed of riding to jerusalem the moslems had almost ridden into paris 
  theodore roosevelt continued in fear god and take your part  wherever the mohammedans have had complete sway wherever the christians have been unable to resist them by the sword christianity has ultimately disappeared from the hammer of charles martel to the sword of jan sobieski christianity owed its safety in europe to the fact that it was able to show that it could and would fight as well as the mohammedan aggressor 
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