Pellowhead is a Marxist, look at his page. Of course he would ignore the Soviet Unions Massive crimes and blame America. No Surprise that he likes Zinn who also is a Communist.
I visited Sagamore Hill on July 4, 2006, and they had a recreation of what the 4th of July would have been like 100 years before, including a brass band. But it was brutally hot that day, and the poor TR impersonator was wearing a period suit, and his wife (not in period dress) kept handing him bottles of water. But he had the voice and all the gestures right. He used the line, "When faced with a question of right and wrong, never be neutral!"
@PELLOWHEAD wrong Roosevelt... Nazi Germany and imperialist empire...was franklin Roosevelt...get your history right...teddy was the original Chuck Norris...thumbs up if u agree
@PELLOWHEAD A People's History of the United States was written by Howard Zinn, a Communist who supported a regime that committed mass murder on a scale equal to that of Nazi Germany.
A regime which starved its own people in huge numbers, carried out ethnic cleansing, forced labor and political repression.
Zinn is about as good a source on American history, as a Nazi propagandist would be.
@sultanknish Bravo, Sultan Knish, you got it right on the mark. Zinn was a pathetic cretin, a Stalinist who would have the chutzpah to claim he REGRETTED bombing Nazis while his relatives in Europe were being murdered by those whom he would have wished to spare. Interestingly enough he would accuse the IDF, an army that often takes risks in sparing civilians of behaving like Nazis in Jenin. BUT he would NEVER denounce his ties to the CPUSA and Uncle Joe Stalin. A piece of dreck to be sure.
@photolitherland Well remember like Franklin Roosevelt, Theodore was a New Yorker with a very wealthy, aristocratic background, he didn't come from the backwoods.
That's because Mr. Ted was the greatest man to ever lived who happened to become president and Obama is a normal human who happened to become president.
Theodore Roosevelt was the greatest damn president to ever hold the office. FUCK OBAMA!
Anyway, quite frankly, I like that Roosevelt's voice was like this and not deep and booming. The accent and diction showed his upperclass sophistication(The Roosevelts ARE aristocrats, after all) which complimented his sheer manliness.
@victorchapin3 I believe that he is the oldest president of whom exist audio recordings, so he is the earliest president of who we know what he sounded like.
I remember reading, perhaps in "River of Doubt" (which I am currently reading; highly recommended for anyone interested in TR) that his high, clear voice was a great asset in making speeches, as they obviously didn't have any microphones at the time.
@lildwayne21 He was known to have a squeaky voice. Doesn't sound so manly, YET he was a man's man. He adventured in the Wild West, organized the Rough Riders, hunted animals, and was a police commissioner in NY. He was indeed a man's man.
I have been reading Harry Turtledove's series Timeline 191 (alternate history where the South won the war) which has Teddy Roosevelt as a character. I finally have a voice to put to his dialogue.
@photolitherland - I know right, you would think with his image he would have had a James Earl Jones type voice, but he didn`t. Same with Abe Lincoln; His voice was described as high and reedy. Someone once described it as a womans voice at times when Lincoln got excited! I would imagine he sounded somewhere between Richard Simmons and Barney Fife. Guys like him would never get elected today in a million years. It just goes to show how much damage TV and video has done to politics.
@LonesomePaleRider I hear ya! He was a LEADER! He wasn't into any popularity contests. Leaders do what's right and aren't afraid to go against the current. Teddy was amazing.
@LonesomePaleRider No, most presidents just lay down and die after getting shot (except Andrew Jackson, who shot back), instead of delivering a one and a half hour speech. Sissies.
Keep in mind that this is a 100 year old recording. We really can't know what the tone of the voice was like because on old recordings, the pitch is always off. Notice that most people recorded at this time in history sound almost exactly the same.
The conviction with which he spoke, I truly admire all he accomplished in his life and how got things done for the benefit of all Americans, even when his term as president ended some of his staunchest political enemies stated that they knew a great man had served most dutifully. We need another of his ilk but sadly I fear not to pass
@photolitherland American speech is actually pretty conservative (even retaining some words of Shakespeare English into modern day.) What Roosevelt has is a trained, upper class town. If you listen to someone like General Pershing ((Who was born in 1860) he sounds identical to someone you might hear today.
you are all concerned about his voice. for christ sakes the man was giving a speech and was shot in the chest in a failed assassination attempt. and what did he do? got up. examined his own wound, informed the public that being that he wasn't coughing up blood, the bullet didn't penetrate his lungs. and continued his speech. bleeding out his chest. its amazing how much one person can accomplish in one life time.
Keep in mind that audio recordings in those days didn't preserve the lower ranges that well. His voice was probably a little deeper than it sounds here. I hope so, anyway.
Best president ever, both sides love him now. Shame Taft stole the republican nomination from him when he tried a comeback, close second with a third party. Pretty amazing. I wouldve loved to study Tr as the leader during ww1 instead of Wilson.
It's unfair to say that Taft stole the nomination. I think that if he wasn't being pressured by the republican party to run as an incumbent, he probably wouldn't have run.
He and TR were good friends, and I doubt Taft would have run against him if it was his choice in the matter.
As for WWI, that's always been something I wondered. If TR had been president in instead of Wilson, we probably would've entered much sooner, and because of that, the Great War would've ended sooner as well.
For example, we wouldn't have been trading with Germany, and would have been providing much more aid to England and France.
Furthermore, I'm sure TR would've handled the occupation of Germany with a tighter grasp, possibly ending WWII before it ever started.
He would have entered the war earlier but I don't believe that the war would have ended earlier as a result. The success of the USA in 1917 was largely in part huge number of men it brought which exploited the German loss of life in their attempt to take Paris.
I think the USA would have ended up in the same trench warfare with the Allies.
All, I am sorry for my bias, HOWEVER, TR was to me the greatest US President ever. He did what was right and continued all our freedoms.
I always thought TR was the greatest until my best friend corrected me and told me that if we didn't have George Washington, there would never be true peace and freedom on the Planet. My best friend is correct.
Lucky me, I was born to the day, EXACTLY, 100 Years younger than the YOUNGEST PRESIDENT OF THE USA. THAT'S RIGHT, THE YOUNGEST PRESIDENT, NOT JFK
He doesn't sound at all like a brit. He sounds proper sure, but not all brits do. His accent is far closer to general American then any of the accents in the isles.
@UNCfan102 His accent, which his cousins Franklin and Eleanor shared, is called Mid-Atlantic, a hybrid between British and American. Only the East Coast elites had it then and probably fewer do now.
The government can't control everyone, and do everything for everyone or else the american people won't learn.
Teddy was right, we were capable back then, but we arn't anymore because the people believe the government should do everything for them. If you do everything for a kid, they arn't ever gona learn. Same concept.
You should think about the implications of what you are saying. I understand your view that some Americans are less than responsible citizens who disregard their basic civic duties, however it is dangerous to lose faith in all Americans. There will always be people who are short-sighted, uneducated, bigoted, etc...but there are many more who are not. If you talked to Americans 100 years ago they would probably complain about the same problem.
A great man, but the American people are not capable of self-control, do not learn from their mistakes, and are unfit to self-govern. The general public is short-sighted, uneducated, bigoted, base, violent, lazy, and selfish. I'm not saying that I have a better idea, but the American people (of 2009) are not the people he described in this video.
Well no, not the people of 2009, Teddy Roosevelt was president nearly a century ago. But your description of the american people is not hopeful at best. I have great hope for better days in the future.
Roosevelt's theme is inspiring, but your criticism is understandable. I guess it's hard to make generalizations about so many millions of people, each of whom bring unique freight to the identity of "American citizen." Perhaps Roosevelt's idea is best understood in the following context: self-governance is to be pursued even if government control is lessened to the degree that its proponents would take exception. It's a compelling theme as we now have the most leftist president in our history
If you listen to those rare recordings from the very early 20th century of Americans speaking (without being overly conscious of speaking into a recording device), they sound JUST LIKE modern Americans.
There was a tone & cadence to public speaking back then that you hear often, as in this recording. In the 19th Century, it was understood that you were to speak this way in public. We're hearing the last remnants of that.
There are some 1905 World's Fair recordings that offer "real" voices.
It's hard to believe that a President spoke as regally as this at one point. I had heard that Teddy Roosevelt had a nasally-kind of voice, this is quite the opposite.
my top 5 favorite presidents are Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theorode Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln. those are MY top 5.
Without microphones 9 out of 10 people in politics today wouldn't stand a chance, because before mics you had to have charisma and the ability to project your voice if you wanted to be heard and noticed by people. Mics have killed the art of oratory dead. Hitler was prob the last great orator, but because we're used to sniveling 'tards who can't speak worth a shit it sounds overblown to us (plus it's in German). I think here TR is clearly recording by the way and not speaking live.
@RWT683 actually hitler used film, and watched himself do speeches, than using that he would refine his speaking. so hitler would probably not have been is good without the microphone.
quite frankly this sounds more like William Jennings Bryan to me. Just the style sounds more like him in his speech "against imperialism" or his "cross of gold speech".
@LAMAproduction Hey we don't need the product of ur free speech here on youtube,,,, children are on here and + I'm on here and I don't like your free speech verbs!
Um, TR wasn't "forced" out of politics by Taft and FDR. He was in the same party as Taft and TR had been dead for many years before FDR was first elected. All three are great men and it's silly to portray them as enemies.
I'm pretty sure Taft didn't force him out, I'm pretty sure he left on his own. He lost the nomination in the republican primary to Taft and Taft won the presidency. Then next election he decided to make his own party called the Bull Moose party and he came in 2nd in the election and Woodrow Wilson won. Taft was the only sitting president to come in 3rd in an election.
he left partly on his own, again it was clear that his own party really did not want him, and only when he saw what a disaster Taft was did he try to make a comeback
FDR before Washington? Woodrow Wilson? The man dragged the US into a world war, under his administration people were arrested for opposing the war and then he launched the League of Nations boondoggle. Wilson set America back a decade at least.
As for Jefferson, he set us up for the disastrous War of 1812 by dismantling our ability to fight a war.
You're list is a little off. Andrew Jackson isn't on it and Lincoln is first. Lincoln was actually a very very unpopular President until his assassination made him a martyr. OH and FDR... I think history will reevaluate his presidency not in his favor (he was after all a socialist who abused his executive powers and on top of that he didn't get the U.S. out of the Depression.)
TR was a very very popular president... he was a war hero!
Lincoln was actually unpopular right before he was assassinated. Had he been unpopular during his re election bid he wouldn't have won a 2nd term in a landslide.
The exact same senitiment is true about the Liberal-Democrats today. Though they may say that the champion for the people, their actions and the policies that they support prove the exact opposite!
And as far as what you said, TR was the original trustbuster. He ended the Guilded Age, the Age that Dickens and Twain wrote about, the age when the rich broke the backs of the poor even more than they do today.
What else did he do? Civil reforms. Helping the striking coal miners reach a settlement. Liberated Panama- a country that DID greet us as liberators. His industrial reforms, and remaking the navy, made us a world power. Ended the Russo-Japanese war.
His other son was a pilot in Worl War one. He was killed in action and this upset his father deeply. This was a family that helped make America and always seemed to know what was best for us.
Some of you questioned whether the speaker is, in fact, TR. It is. (I've listened to about ten of his recordings.) He had his own distinct speaking manner (that squeaky-voiced staccato), but his accent is Victorian upper-class New York, with a little Harvard thrown in. I love listening to him. Not only is he one of the most impassioned presidential speakers, but so much of what he said is still right on the mark today. Wish he were running!
The world would be such a better place with more pesidents like him.I belive that he was one of the greatest presidents of all time, he was such a great leader, and I know that he was always right, no matter what the situation was.
I would rate some of the greatest presidents as Lincoln, TR, Polk, FDR, and Washington. The first Bush was actually pretty good with a 90 percent approval rating, apparently, but he wasn't the top 5.
Agreed. He championed free markets, unions, and stood up to monopolies. He cared for wildlife and the welfare of the people. Truly a great man and one of the great presidents.
Who else thought he would be a baritone? Tons of people, right? And I bet Lincoln sounded a lot like this too.
KingOfKatamari 6 months ago
@KingOfKatamari He actually was reported to have a similar voice.
MarcePhoenix 6 months ago
TR was the greatest President we have ever had. Period.
TheAolele 6 months ago
I always though Theodore Roosevelt would sound more like Woodrow Wilson. Mind = Blown.
xDraconianKingx 6 months ago
He doesn't sound like what I thought he would but still a great voice.
guitarmessiah95 7 months ago
Coolest. Republican. Ever.
Digitbig 7 months ago
He is no ordinary republican, he is a Bull Moose.
bomber957 7 months ago 10
Teddy Roosevelt was made of pure, concentrated Badass.
FinnSolomon 8 months ago 7
@PELLOWHEAD After taking one look at your favorited videos, I was no longer surprised by your comment.
reflectorr88 8 months ago
bully speech!
abridgedfan107 8 months ago
Theodore Roosevelt: Chubby. Soft spoken. One of the most badass men that have ever lived.
Sperium3000 8 months ago 5
Pellowhead is a Marxist, look at his page. Of course he would ignore the Soviet Unions Massive crimes and blame America. No Surprise that he likes Zinn who also is a Communist.
LineDoggie 9 months ago 2
I visited Sagamore Hill on July 4, 2006, and they had a recreation of what the 4th of July would have been like 100 years before, including a brass band. But it was brutally hot that day, and the poor TR impersonator was wearing a period suit, and his wife (not in period dress) kept handing him bottles of water. But he had the voice and all the gestures right. He used the line, "When faced with a question of right and wrong, never be neutral!"
UncleMikeNJ 10 months ago
Anyone who would impugn the reputation of the greatest American who ever lived is less than a scumbag !!!
zenard100 10 months ago 2
This voice is a ruse. It is used to put his enemies on their back foot. And then a brutal asskicking ensues.
TheGeneralCritic 10 months ago 3
teddy Roosevelt was the first chuck norris
bevonwithyuri 10 months ago 7
@PELLOWHEAD wrong Roosevelt... Nazi Germany and imperialist empire...was franklin Roosevelt...get your history right...teddy was the original Chuck Norris...thumbs up if u agree
bevonwithyuri 10 months ago 24
@bevonwithyuri he made a comparison you moron, cant believe your getting thumbs up for your stupid comment
fleischpudding 9 months ago
Somehow, I expected him to have a deeper voice. Still, he is the most badass president in the history of this country.
JeremyBarandela 11 months ago
So not what I expected him to sound like! This is amazing
tinadup1 11 months ago
Hey Pellowhead,or is it Pinhead?
reddog50us 1 year ago
Howard Zinn was a supporter of Stalin's Russia. That says enough.
kiptoy123 1 year ago 7
you'd think someone as badass as him would have a deep booming voice
painlessissuicide 1 year ago
@PELLOWHEAD A People's History of the United States was written by Howard Zinn, a Communist who supported a regime that committed mass murder on a scale equal to that of Nazi Germany.
A regime which starved its own people in huge numbers, carried out ethnic cleansing, forced labor and political repression.
Zinn is about as good a source on American history, as a Nazi propagandist would be.
sultanknish 1 year ago 91
@sultanknish Well said.
callofduty4eva 10 months ago
@sultanknish Bravo, Sultan Knish, you got it right on the mark. Zinn was a pathetic cretin, a Stalinist who would have the chutzpah to claim he REGRETTED bombing Nazis while his relatives in Europe were being murdered by those whom he would have wished to spare. Interestingly enough he would accuse the IDF, an army that often takes risks in sparing civilians of behaving like Nazis in Jenin. BUT he would NEVER denounce his ties to the CPUSA and Uncle Joe Stalin. A piece of dreck to be sure.
rockon18 9 months ago
@sultanknish A much better book is "A PATRIOT'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES".
frontiersman82 7 months ago
this is actually thomas edison reading a Roosevelt speech at Carnegie Hall in NY. Roosevelt's voice is in fact much deeper.
aqualad141 1 year ago
this is amazing
queenzlink247 1 year ago
@photolitherland Well remember like Franklin Roosevelt, Theodore was a New Yorker with a very wealthy, aristocratic background, he didn't come from the backwoods.
NewYorkFlavour 1 year ago
Roosevelt for Eternal President!
IAMTHECAPSGODLOL 1 year ago
wow so far i have only seen nothing but good comments on roosevelt unlike other people, cough "obama" cough, "bush"
ThePilotman818 1 year ago
@ThePilotman818
That's because Mr. Ted was the greatest man to ever lived who happened to become president and Obama is a normal human who happened to become president.
XKing2 1 year ago
The first great MODERATE president!!! THANK YOU!!
Diumib 1 year ago
He sounds like an average american of its time period. Can't say I'm surprised.
sompret 1 year ago
He doesn't sound as hyper as I expected him to sound, but he certainly sounds very well educated. He almost sounds british.
lildwayne21 1 year ago
Theodore Roosevelt was the greatest damn president to ever hold the office. FUCK OBAMA!
Anyway, quite frankly, I like that Roosevelt's voice was like this and not deep and booming. The accent and diction showed his upperclass sophistication(The Roosevelts ARE aristocrats, after all) which complimented his sheer manliness.
SickBritKid 1 year ago 4
Teddy Roosevelt's voice is so deep and badass, recording devices are unable to record it. Thus, it sounds like this.
Raguleader 1 year ago 3
wait, they had sound in videos back then?
XXToasterxXXx 1 year ago 4
@XXToasterxXXx No they didn't. This is an audio recording added to a silent reel.
sultanknish 1 year ago
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XXToasterxXXx 1 year ago
@sultanknish im pretty sure he was the first president to be on colored tv or something meaning he would have been on audio and in color
victorchapin3 1 year ago
@victorchapin3 I doubt that's possible, but I could be wrong. If you find a video like that pass it along.
sultanknish 1 year ago
@sultanknish yeah my teacher showed us he had a dvd or something
victorchapin3 1 year ago
@victorchapin3 No, Kennedy was the first president to be broadcast on colour television. It's part of what helped him win against Nixon.
Quouar 1 year ago
@victorchapin3 I believe that he is the oldest president of whom exist audio recordings, so he is the earliest president of who we know what he sounded like.
Beriorn 1 year ago
@Beriorn Actually there's a recording of Grover Cleveland on YouTube too
watch?v=5-5Bk1Hjstc
sultanknish 1 year ago
@XXToasterxXXx Not only did they not have sound on videos back then, they didn't even have video.
rabid 1 year ago
A REAL AMERICAN!
apollo13jim 1 year ago
@apollo13jim The greatest American character in American history, Theodore Roosevelt.
lildwayne21 1 year ago
Why doesn't Theodore Roosevelt just get a little more awesome?
WerewolflovesKelly 1 year ago
I heard that Lincoln also had high pitched voice (for a man). I wonder if this is close to how he sounded...
Aristocatable 1 year ago
I remember reading, perhaps in "River of Doubt" (which I am currently reading; highly recommended for anyone interested in TR) that his high, clear voice was a great asset in making speeches, as they obviously didn't have any microphones at the time.
deadmanjard9 1 year ago
You can listen to his voice and tell he's quite brilliant, although he doesn't sound as hyper as one might expect.
lildwayne21 1 year ago
@lildwayne21 He was known to have a squeaky voice. Doesn't sound so manly, YET he was a man's man. He adventured in the Wild West, organized the Rough Riders, hunted animals, and was a police commissioner in NY. He was indeed a man's man.
Agent1W 1 year ago 2
@Agent1W The outward traits of what we think of as manly have changed a lot over time, but the deeds tell the true tale
sultanknish 1 year ago
@sultanknish Which is why we shouldn't prejudge others! :)
Agent1W 1 year ago
One could hope that the present administration would listen to these words.... carefully.
rrkmitzell2n 1 year ago
@rrkmitzell2n I agree
lildwayne21 1 year ago
I have been reading Harry Turtledove's series Timeline 191 (alternate history where the South won the war) which has Teddy Roosevelt as a character. I finally have a voice to put to his dialogue.
grungefreak10 1 year ago
@photolitherland - I know right, you would think with his image he would have had a James Earl Jones type voice, but he didn`t. Same with Abe Lincoln; His voice was described as high and reedy. Someone once described it as a womans voice at times when Lincoln got excited! I would imagine he sounded somewhere between Richard Simmons and Barney Fife. Guys like him would never get elected today in a million years. It just goes to show how much damage TV and video has done to politics.
JamesTKirkCobain 1 year ago
Today America needs Franklin Roosevelt and Theodore Roosevelt more than anything. Obama has let down the liberals and the progressives.
andyx1205 1 year ago 2
The voice of a man that would have fought Death itself if it came for him while he was awake.
Beriorn 1 year ago 3
We need him more now than we ever have! Sadly there will never be another President like Teddy.
LonesomePaleRider 1 year ago
@LonesomePaleRider I hear ya! He was a LEADER! He wasn't into any popularity contests. Leaders do what's right and aren't afraid to go against the current. Teddy was amazing.
thebeastlacey 1 year ago
@LonesomePaleRider No, most presidents just lay down and die after getting shot (except Andrew Jackson, who shot back), instead of delivering a one and a half hour speech. Sissies.
SwingJugend 1 year ago
Keep in mind that this is a 100 year old recording. We really can't know what the tone of the voice was like because on old recordings, the pitch is always off. Notice that most people recorded at this time in history sound almost exactly the same.
kraken138 1 year ago
The conviction with which he spoke, I truly admire all he accomplished in his life and how got things done for the benefit of all Americans, even when his term as president ended some of his staunchest political enemies stated that they knew a great man had served most dutifully. We need another of his ilk but sadly I fear not to pass
JahaysusKahrist 1 year ago 4
They just don't make them like they used to. =/
wasp9 1 year ago 3
His voice takes "Speak softly and carry a big stick" to a whole new level.
2wingo 1 year ago
@photolitherland American speech is actually pretty conservative (even retaining some words of Shakespeare English into modern day.) What Roosevelt has is a trained, upper class town. If you listen to someone like General Pershing ((Who was born in 1860) he sounds identical to someone you might hear today.
UNCfan102 1 year ago
The last thing you heard before a brutal ass-kicking.
Inenitias 1 year ago
This voice makes him more badass. You cannot deny.
mastersmasher2021 1 year ago 63
@mastersmasher2021 Exactly. 50% Victorian, 50% ass-kicker.
laofmoonster 1 year ago
TDR. THAT'S MY BOIII!
dyktspecc 1 year ago
One of my alltime favorite presidents!
MrJ567 1 year ago
you are all concerned about his voice. for christ sakes the man was giving a speech and was shot in the chest in a failed assassination attempt. and what did he do? got up. examined his own wound, informed the public that being that he wasn't coughing up blood, the bullet didn't penetrate his lungs. and continued his speech. bleeding out his chest. its amazing how much one person can accomplish in one life time.
goomba2smash 1 year ago
i expected him to have a thundering god like voice
miraeja 1 year ago
I did, too. Reading about him in history books, and seeing pictures of him giving speeches; it just goes to show what a bold person he was.
GreatDayinTheNight 1 year ago
pretty neat......
HistoryofTek 1 year ago
Keep in mind that audio recordings in those days didn't preserve the lower ranges that well. His voice was probably a little deeper than it sounds here. I hope so, anyway.
infinitefathom 1 year ago
Best president ever, both sides love him now. Shame Taft stole the republican nomination from him when he tried a comeback, close second with a third party. Pretty amazing. I wouldve loved to study Tr as the leader during ww1 instead of Wilson.
St984 1 year ago
It's unfair to say that Taft stole the nomination. I think that if he wasn't being pressured by the republican party to run as an incumbent, he probably wouldn't have run.
He and TR were good friends, and I doubt Taft would have run against him if it was his choice in the matter.
tetrisclock 1 year ago
As for WWI, that's always been something I wondered. If TR had been president in instead of Wilson, we probably would've entered much sooner, and because of that, the Great War would've ended sooner as well.
For example, we wouldn't have been trading with Germany, and would have been providing much more aid to England and France.
Furthermore, I'm sure TR would've handled the occupation of Germany with a tighter grasp, possibly ending WWII before it ever started.
tetrisclock 1 year ago
@tetrisclock
He would have entered the war earlier but I don't believe that the war would have ended earlier as a result. The success of the USA in 1917 was largely in part huge number of men it brought which exploited the German loss of life in their attempt to take Paris.
I think the USA would have ended up in the same trench warfare with the Allies.
DorianGrayism 1 year ago
thats teddy?! i thought his voice would sound different.
StrawB0ss 1 year ago
it seems by the way he moves that his voice is more stern and strong.
bulletz4life 1 year ago
God please send us another TR
Goodspittin 2 years ago
GOD BLESS TR AND GOD BLESS THE USA
Let's all forgot about who he sounds like, TR, Brit, American, Dutch, WHATEVER.
BOTTOM LINE, FREEDOM!!!
That's the purpose of the US. I TRULY LOVE TR, I TRULY DO, I was born EXACTLY 100 YEARS TO THE DAY AFTER TR. Do the Math: 10/27.
TR's quotes are the greatest, on was pick either Righteous or Peace, What did TR pick? The correct word, Righteous.
TR did so much for the USA, why do you think he is on Mt Rushmore, I can go on and on. He was my favorite.
bobbycv64 1 year ago
All, I am sorry for my bias, HOWEVER, TR was to me the greatest US President ever. He did what was right and continued all our freedoms.
I always thought TR was the greatest until my best friend corrected me and told me that if we didn't have George Washington, there would never be true peace and freedom on the Planet. My best friend is correct.
Lucky me, I was born to the day, EXACTLY, 100 Years younger than the YOUNGEST PRESIDENT OF THE USA. THAT'S RIGHT, THE YOUNGEST PRESIDENT, NOT JFK
bobbycv64 1 year ago
this guy sounds like a Brit
JosifVStalin 2 years ago
@JosifVStalin Its called English, look it up sometime
GaiusIuliusTaberna 2 years ago 3
And Roosevelt was Dutch not British
Durendal33 1 year ago
He doesn't sound at all like a brit. He sounds proper sure, but not all brits do. His accent is far closer to general American then any of the accents in the isles.
UNCfan102 1 year ago 2
That's because he was an American President. Born in New York. Dip shit..
Jaymora24 1 year ago
@JosifVStalin How on earth does he sound like a brit? He doesn't drop his rs or do any other thing characteristic of a British accent.
UNCfan102 1 year ago
@UNCfan102 His accent, which his cousins Franklin and Eleanor shared, is called Mid-Atlantic, a hybrid between British and American. Only the East Coast elites had it then and probably fewer do now.
xander7ful 1 year ago
dang...he sounds a lot different than i thought he would
crazyweirdo7 2 years ago
I imagined him with this big booming voice.
Not this rather soft voice which seems be human kindness personified.
Seriously, what the hell TR?
FedoraHatProductions 2 years ago
@FedoraHatProductions Then you know nothing of TR. On some levels he was human kindness personified. "Speak softly" and all that.
Hyperbole86 1 year ago
The movie footage of TR is absolutely priceless
ilovesteelydan 2 years ago 3
The government can't control everyone, and do everything for everyone or else the american people won't learn.
Teddy was right, we were capable back then, but we arn't anymore because the people believe the government should do everything for them. If you do everything for a kid, they arn't ever gona learn. Same concept.
RainbowExplosives 2 years ago 7
Wow, he sounds so......NATURAL.
I always thought he had a really gruff voice.
Stephanie3189 2 years ago 4
yeah me too,
plasticwraprocks 2 years ago
You should think about the implications of what you are saying. I understand your view that some Americans are less than responsible citizens who disregard their basic civic duties, however it is dangerous to lose faith in all Americans. There will always be people who are short-sighted, uneducated, bigoted, etc...but there are many more who are not. If you talked to Americans 100 years ago they would probably complain about the same problem.
kabbottspitzer 2 years ago 4
A great man, but the American people are not capable of self-control, do not learn from their mistakes, and are unfit to self-govern. The general public is short-sighted, uneducated, bigoted, base, violent, lazy, and selfish. I'm not saying that I have a better idea, but the American people (of 2009) are not the people he described in this video.
bonereater 2 years ago
Well no, not the people of 2009, Teddy Roosevelt was president nearly a century ago. But your description of the american people is not hopeful at best. I have great hope for better days in the future.
orion7763 2 years ago
Hence, "I must lead else the fight will not be made at all."
Jsparrow64 2 years ago
Roosevelt's theme is inspiring, but your criticism is understandable. I guess it's hard to make generalizations about so many millions of people, each of whom bring unique freight to the identity of "American citizen." Perhaps Roosevelt's idea is best understood in the following context: self-governance is to be pursued even if government control is lessened to the degree that its proponents would take exception. It's a compelling theme as we now have the most leftist president in our history
goback3spaces 2 years ago
Like Michael Savage said, lot of them can't even hold their pants up.
theboombody 2 years ago
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Svittidiu 2 years ago
Great president, and an extraordinary guy all around. I find the fact that he once finished a speech after being shot amazing.
TheOnlineCommunity 2 years ago 2
he was a cool guy RIP
uzhakaththamizhan 2 years ago 3
RIP Theodore
ElChino776 2 years ago 2
If you listen to those rare recordings from the very early 20th century of Americans speaking (without being overly conscious of speaking into a recording device), they sound JUST LIKE modern Americans.
There was a tone & cadence to public speaking back then that you hear often, as in this recording. In the 19th Century, it was understood that you were to speak this way in public. We're hearing the last remnants of that.
There are some 1905 World's Fair recordings that offer "real" voices.
mubirshu 2 years ago
It's hard to believe that a President spoke as regally as this at one point. I had heard that Teddy Roosevelt had a nasally-kind of voice, this is quite the opposite.
askl23 2 years ago
my top 5 favorite presidents are Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theorode Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln. those are MY top 5.
ChicagoCubs1060 2 years ago
if you listen to speeches from back then, they don't sound very much like Hollywood. American speech underwent some changes over time.
sultanknish 3 years ago
it shows how the expectations we have are off base when it comes to the way things really were then
sultanknish 3 years ago 3
Imagine having to make a long speech to that many people, outdoors, without a microphone.
visceralgristle 3 years ago
Without microphones 9 out of 10 people in politics today wouldn't stand a chance, because before mics you had to have charisma and the ability to project your voice if you wanted to be heard and noticed by people. Mics have killed the art of oratory dead. Hitler was prob the last great orator, but because we're used to sniveling 'tards who can't speak worth a shit it sounds overblown to us (plus it's in German). I think here TR is clearly recording by the way and not speaking live.
RWT683 3 years ago 32
@RWT683 actually hitler used film, and watched himself do speeches, than using that he would refine his speaking. so hitler would probably not have been is good without the microphone.
KingRoanMoore 1 year ago
He sounds like Ronald Reagan.
daughterrevolution 3 years ago 4
quite frankly this sounds more like William Jennings Bryan to me. Just the style sounds more like him in his speech "against imperialism" or his "cross of gold speech".
scj16 3 years ago
I read that a reporter once asked TR why he did not try to control his daughter and he said: I could try to control Alice or run this country. lol
ekocentric 3 years ago
there 47 stars in 1907
48 in 1912
davidlee110 3 years ago
Roosevelt was worse than George W.
SouthernUnitarian 3 years ago
fuck of men...thats tottaly not true!
LAMAproduction 3 years ago 9
@LAMAproduction Hey we don't need the product of ur free speech here on youtube,,,, children are on here and + I'm on here and I don't like your free speech verbs!
grasspa 1 year ago
how, George Bush is a FULL BLOWN Liberal; in this speech TR presets fully conservative views.
martinalexandrov 3 years ago
This man was a true American.
thecoach2007 3 years ago 7
Um, TR wasn't "forced" out of politics by Taft and FDR. He was in the same party as Taft and TR had been dead for many years before FDR was first elected. All three are great men and it's silly to portray them as enemies.
Horticultural1 3 years ago
Um, he actually was.
Taft did force him out of politics. FDR did not, but FDR and his wife did destroy his son's political career instead with dirty tricks.
sultanknish 3 years ago
I'm pretty sure Taft didn't force him out, I'm pretty sure he left on his own. He lost the nomination in the republican primary to Taft and Taft won the presidency. Then next election he decided to make his own party called the Bull Moose party and he came in 2nd in the election and Woodrow Wilson won. Taft was the only sitting president to come in 3rd in an election.
DJPrince2032 3 years ago
he left partly on his own, again it was clear that his own party really did not want him, and only when he saw what a disaster Taft was did he try to make a comeback
sultanknish 3 years ago
a GREAT SCORPIO.........
docjonvet1 3 years ago
TR makes one proud to be an American.
rjscheppy 3 years ago 4
Teddy is the personifcation of the U.S.of A.When ppl say this country has no culture they need only too look towards T.R.
kelly700red 3 years ago 3
wow what a great man
lynyrdskynyrd95 3 years ago 5
yeah i picked him for my 5th grade president report and im glad i did.
twittybird13 3 years ago
This speech almost sounds like Ronald Reagan. Really, a masterful orator.
kbrtiger22 3 years ago
Regan and Theodore Roosevelt are two of the best presidents we have ever had.
twittybird13 3 years ago 5
It goes: Lincoln, FDR, TR, Washington, Woodrow Wilson, and Jefferson
DJPrince2032 3 years ago
FDR before Washington? Woodrow Wilson? The man dragged the US into a world war, under his administration people were arrested for opposing the war and then he launched the League of Nations boondoggle. Wilson set America back a decade at least.
As for Jefferson, he set us up for the disastrous War of 1812 by dismantling our ability to fight a war.
sultanknish 3 years ago
@sultanknish We're still trying to fix Wilson's messes, let alone FRD's, Carter's, Clinton's, Bush's, and Obama's.
foster21 1 year ago
@sultanknish FDR did not drag us into a world war japan did.
braelay 1 year ago
You're list is a little off. Andrew Jackson isn't on it and Lincoln is first. Lincoln was actually a very very unpopular President until his assassination made him a martyr. OH and FDR... I think history will reevaluate his presidency not in his favor (he was after all a socialist who abused his executive powers and on top of that he didn't get the U.S. out of the Depression.)
TR was a very very popular president... he was a war hero!
President I feel most sorry for: Herbert Hoover.
slsams6413 3 years ago 2
Lincoln was actually unpopular right before he was assassinated. Had he been unpopular during his re election bid he wouldn't have won a 2nd term in a landslide.
bittergunowner12 3 years ago
Why Lincoln? Because he freed the slaves? Abe could of cared less of slaves. AND WOODROW WILSON? omg.. .
Arkethot 3 years ago
No the poster is right, these five presidents are consistently ranked the greatest by historians. historians > you.
xitongzou 2 years ago
@DJPrince2032 Why is Wilson on that list? And why the hell is Jefferson there? He did most of his good work BEFORE his presidency.
iwebber88 1 year ago
The exact same senitiment is true about the Liberal-Democrats today. Though they may say that the champion for the people, their actions and the policies that they support prove the exact opposite!
SuperDude2569 3 years ago
And as far as what you said, TR was the original trustbuster. He ended the Guilded Age, the Age that Dickens and Twain wrote about, the age when the rich broke the backs of the poor even more than they do today.
What else did he do? Civil reforms. Helping the striking coal miners reach a settlement. Liberated Panama- a country that DID greet us as liberators. His industrial reforms, and remaking the navy, made us a world power. Ended the Russo-Japanese war.
He deserves Rushmore.
obiwanobiwan13 3 years ago 3
He was an Earthquake that could walk. His energy was truly boundless. One of our greatest presidents ever.
pytko3 3 years ago 6
his son Teddy Jr was a great man too, Medal of Honor, only General to land at Normandy
sultanknish 3 years ago
His other son was a pilot in Worl War one. He was killed in action and this upset his father deeply. This was a family that helped make America and always seemed to know what was best for us.
pytko3 3 years ago 5
yes, sadly they were forced out by politics while slimeballs like Taft and FDR got ahead
sultanknish 3 years ago
His grandson was a SEAL in Vietnam.
kelly700red 3 years ago 3
very cool, did not know that
sultanknish 3 years ago
I don't know if he was the greatest President but the certainly the greatest person to be President.
OutOnBailNow 3 years ago 5
Some of you questioned whether the speaker is, in fact, TR. It is. (I've listened to about ten of his recordings.) He had his own distinct speaking manner (that squeaky-voiced staccato), but his accent is Victorian upper-class New York, with a little Harvard thrown in. I love listening to him. Not only is he one of the most impassioned presidential speakers, but so much of what he said is still right on the mark today. Wish he were running!
SirCyrano 3 years ago
Greatest President ever!
mattm1836 3 years ago 3
He has a sort of British accent, doesn't he?
pipeorganloverNJP 3 years ago
American accents changed over time, his was American for the 19th century
sultanknish 3 years ago
That was a narrator, I also thought he sounded funny, I was later told it was the narrator speaking.
danielchance 3 years ago
The world would be such a better place with more pesidents like him.I belive that he was one of the greatest presidents of all time, he was such a great leader, and I know that he was always right, no matter what the situation was.
brandythebrown 3 years ago
I would rate some of the greatest presidents as Lincoln, TR, Polk, FDR, and Washington. The first Bush was actually pretty good with a 90 percent approval rating, apparently, but he wasn't the top 5.
PyroJGL 3 years ago 2
Good speech I would say not only was TR a great president but, he was also a good man who believed in our country and was a true patriot.
Mike8734 3 years ago 2
Agreed. He championed free markets, unions, and stood up to monopolies. He cared for wildlife and the welfare of the people. Truly a great man and one of the great presidents.
d2eux 3 years ago 4
Not to mention he's the man most responsible for making America a superpower.
CountArtha 3 years ago
Truly the greatest American hands down.
icetrout2 3 years ago 4
Teddy Bear. He's a good presy.
Gladys973 3 years ago
We need a man like this today.
Luis2899 3 years ago 3
Sounded like an incredible president, can we resurrect him and make him President?
FSM2786 3 years ago 6
What are you? What don,t you learn from him and run for president.
SgtThom 3 years ago
I wish he was our president today,he wouldn't put up with any of the al queda bullshit,And we wouldn't have fags like code pink either.
futuresoldier897 3 years ago 4
Well neither is George Bush. He is sticking to his guns unlike some Democrats.
jsemper24 3 years ago 5