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5 Quotes From Teddy Roosevelt That Exemplify What It Means To Be A Progressive
by Joe Romm Aug 31, 2015
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by Joe Romm Aug 31, 2015
On August 31, 1910, President Theodore Roosevelt defined what it was to be a progressive, and why progressives and environmentalists were patriots: “Conservation is a great moral issue for it involves the patriotic duty of insuring the safety and continuance of the nation.”
Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war, there is none which compares in importance with the great central task of leaving this land even a better land for our descendants than it is for us, and training them into a better race to inhabit the land and pass it on. Conservation is a great moral issue for it involves the patriotic duty of insuring the safety and continuance of the nation.
Roosevelt then immediately pointed out, “Let me add that the health and vitality of our people are at least as well worth conserving as their forests, waters, lands, and minerals, and in this great work the national government must bear a most important part.”
Yes, the famous Republican President Teddy Roosevelt would be what modern conservatives typically label a socialist tree-hugger. While Trump has espoused progressive ideas from time to time, his denial of climate science and of the urgent need for climate action by itself makes him the true radical.
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