"Death had to take Theodore Roosevelt in his sleep. If he had been awake, there would have been a fight." -Vice President Thomas Marshall upon hearing of his passing
@lonewulf44 This is easily obtainable online from the library of congress. Some uploads are a bit faster, or this one is slowed down some, but it i s him.
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Setting aside any consideration of his politics, just listen to him SPEAK: razor-sharp enunciation; great erudition. Compare him to any of today's One Party political whores (including the allegedly "eloquent" Obama) and try not to vomit....
Best damn President ever. Born into enormous wealth but actually gave a damn about the common man, and had the guts to fight for him. Fiercely intelligent and unbelievably tough.
Screw the socipathic Republican plutocrats and the milquetoast Democratic wastrels. We need some Bull Moose, and election reform to put the two-party system and the uberpartisanship it breeds in the grave where it belongs.
i think it is absolutely fascinating that we can still listen to speeches of such charismatic and remarkable people who lived almost one hundred years ago
Youtube doesn't seem to want me to post the URL of the speech transcript, but if you google "The Rights of the People to Rule by Theodore Roosevelt" you'll find the transcript.
TR is a blustering treasonous fool with deep insecurities stemming from his days as a sickly and athsmatic house-bound child. He "proves his manhood" by talking brash, warmongering, bullying his political rivals, and killing African elephants.
@hunarf please read a proper biography and other people's accounts of him instead of thinking yourself clever for looking up a few facts on wikipedia and thinking you know anything about this man. If Roosevelt and his feats aren't "man" enough, then we are all hopeless, effeminate milksops.
@junkevin mmhmm I don't read Wikipedia and if you really want to make a saint out of this warmongering coward then I suggest you stop reading Wikipedia and see that he was about empire building and big business and used the constitution as a wet nap to get us into a unprovoked war with Spain which effectively turned us into a model of the British empire which we see today, Fuck Theodore Roosevelt he was the turn of the century George Bush and Barack Obama.
@hunarf way to come up with an original comeback about me reading wikipedia. (That's sarcasm btw). I'm aware of all the mistakes and accomplishments he made. And although I take back my statement of you getting your sources from wiki, for you seem well-educated, it doesn't change the fact that you are exaggerating and twisting everything he did. He always strived for justice and never allowed even a little bit of corruption even well before his presidency. Plz read more on his earlier years
@n64wilbert Because he was smart. Party lines weren't what was important to him. Politics shouldn't be about taking sides, winning, losing, planting your feet, or making concessions. It should be about listening to the ideas from both sides, taking the facts into account, and creating a policy that meets the needs of people now, and prepares us for a better future. America needs another Roosevelt. Till we get one, we're just wallowing in limbo.
@n64wilbert Because the meaning of political labels changes over time. Our modern set of labels has changed dramatically since they were coined in the late 1700s. Back then, both Socialists and Libertarians would be counted as "Left-wing", with "Right-wing" meaning the people who wanted to go back to monarchy.
@PaulWiele I believe that US political structure was derived by British system watch {The Decline and Triumph of Classical Liberalism} you may not agree on what he advocated's but there's tremendous amount fact's in his lecture.
@PaulWiele No, that is not correct. Republicans and Democrats have changed their views. Right and Left wing still mean the same thing. Right is always small government, Left is always big government.
Yes, the parties have changed, but the labels have, too. The original meaning was that "right" was pro-establishment and "left" was anti-establishment. From the Wikipedia article on Left-Right Politics: "The terms "left" and "right" appeared during the French Revolution of 1789 when members of the National Assembly divided into supporters of the king to the president's right and supporters of the revolution to his left." Some of the people on the Left then were anarchists...
@MrTitomeister No, Mr. Roosevelt was very much a conservative. However, he was a 'progressive' conservative (even forming the progressive "Bull Moose" Party for 1912), which is absent in today's conservatism.
@orion7763 lol no! He was a Progressive Republican! He split the Republican party in the nomination between him and Taft, Taft being less progressive, during the election of 1912. Roosevelt was NOT conservative, he was dubbed a "Republican" at that time, but his fiscal policies very much indeed mirrored liberal ideals of today. You are mixing up the change in views of the Republican party vs. the Democratic party with the Conservatives and Liberals.
Also, to Roosevelt, """"Conservationism"""""" meant the wise use of natural resources. Opposed to "Conservatism" meaning, fiscally, the conservation of money used by government and resistance from federal government intervention with the economy, which Roosevelt DEFINITELY did not do. He dramatically increased the role of government in peoples lives.
As a man every time I think about Teddy I think of a challenge to myself to be a better man, to stand for whats right and not whats easiest, to lead, and to, even in my mistakes, be unwavering.
Now this was a real man and a true hero. "No man can lead a public career really worth leading, no man can act with rugged independence in serious crises, nor strike at great abuses, nor afford to make powerful and unscrupulous foes, if he is himself vulnerable in his private character." TR
There's a reason why TR got a spot on Mount Rushmore. Arguably the greatest President we ever had. He inspired generations of moderates, that balance is needed to run a strong nation.
@KrfNYC2 No. He is, put simply, everything people say Chuck Norris is. Unlike Sanders, TR was a REAL Colonel, which he earned by DEMOTING HIMSELF from Secretary of the Navy so he could start a cavalry regiment and kill hundreds of Spaniards on the front lines. He fought and killed a panther with a pocket knife. He kept lions and bears as pets. He was a boxer and a wrestler and had a brown belt in Judo. He jogged up mountains for fun. He is the epitome of manliness and the biggest badass ever.
teddy roosevelt was an athiast, to be true to america and how we were founded and should still follow these beliefs, this would not have been my pick of a president.
@jrichboy23 can we please not bring up justin bieber? like yea, we get it. hes annoying. this is teddy roosevelt? what does bieber have to do with anything presidential?
I find the question of whether people can rule themselves to be insulting and condescending. In fact that question was answered by law over 100 years prior to this speech and yet we still argue over it today. Technology changes but politics and ideology stays the same.
@DanzHanzen Probably because it's both true and untrue. Some people can rule themselves, some can't. The problem is there's also people who can and can't rule -others- and who can and can't BE ruled by others, and even if we could figure out for sure who they were, they wouldn't go along with being assigned to it. It'd roughly end up being half the people ruling the other half, or as much as a 10 to 1 ratio.
@drpeppa2357 YES! I will punch the hell outta his name if it ever appears on a modern day ballot (if it were possible for him to come back from the dead AND run for a third term, that is).
@drpeppa2357 But also not unwilling to work with business either. He was,a s you said, pragmatic, willing to work for compromise for the best of everyone. Today neither party seems to be willing to do this. They would rather either sell themselves to business and so taint politics or do everything they can to tear apart business, and therefore damage the economy. No one works for the best of everyone.
The nation's greatest president, ever. I want him Back. The republicans of today could learn a lot from him; in fact, it was Taft's brand that led to the modern day state of the Republican party that led to the split, that this speech is about.
@WillShakespeare2007 He did what he did in the name of America. To make a country great you will have to harm those of lesser nations. That's how it works. To expand you have to take things from weaker civilizations. Thats how it works.
@genralr12 The country with the higheat standard of living in the world is Norway. Who have they harmed or killed? Japan has become one of the most powerful economies in the world. Who did they take from? Economic wealth and success comes through peaceful trade and war is simply costly both in money and lives. You are totally wrong in your assessment of the world.
@genralr12 The wars Japan had cost them lives, money and the destruction of many cities. They became the one of the top economies through peaceful trade around the world not a penny from war. That is my point. This man is a war criminal pure and simple. The crimes America committed in the Philippines are some of the worst crimes against humanity in history.
@WillShakespeare2007 well idk wat to tell u. He did wat he did during a time where Imperialism was seen as what the biggest and baddest of nations did. Thats how it was done. War is a product of man. Alot can b gained or lost through war. and without war, the U.S. would not b the U.S. The wars we've fought hav defined us today (for better or for worse). But every country in the world has its bad figures. Germany, England, France, Russia, U.S. Japan, China, etc etc etc.
@chaset51 now i never said it was right lol. but at the time it was seen as right. jus like back in the day slavery was seen as right. it isnt anymore. but once upon a time things we see as wrong today were right a long time ago.
@devsteel13 What on earth are you talking about? Of course you can become one of the top economies in the world through peaceful trade. Japan became the second largest economy in the world with firing a single shot through trade. China has now become the second largest economy through trade. America is trying to hang onto its place by mass slaughter and stealing oil so perhaps that is where you are coming from.
TR -- a great Progressive. He supported government regulation in areas such as food safety and Wall Street. A great environmentalist and a statesman who won the Nobel Peace Prize for hosting a conference to end a war. Does that sound more like a modern day Democrat or Republican?
Pres. Theodore Roosevelt, " that we have no business to permit the perpetuation of citizens of the wrong type .... The problem cannot be met unless we give consideration to the influence of heredity .... I wish that the wrong people be prevented from breeding; and when the evil nature of these people is sufficiently flagrant, this should be done .... The emphasis should be laid on getting desirable people to breed." nice teddy bear eh?anything in books is a cover for the evil they did.
@apollo13jim Wow you have no idea what you're talking about and you clearly don't know anything about TR. You know that TR broke away from the republican party because William Taft was creating increasingly more conservative policies right?
People seem to be getting confused that because TR served as president under the Republican party that he was a conservative. On the contrary, his policies were what we would consider today to be very liberal and outright socialist. Great president RIP TR.
@Vrojimmy You are completely wrong. He was a conservative libertarian by todays standards. He wanted less government and people to fend for themselves. HE HATED Wilson and his policies. You are trying to link todays political values to past political values and what they meant then. By your methodology you could say that in todays political values and how people are half of the founding fathers are down right socialist. I think you should throw in more fact just making baseless communist claims
@joeyjobear Wow, you're kidding right? Go look up the policies of the Bull Moose Party aka Theodore Roosevelt's PROGRESSIVE party. He campaigned for national health care and worker unions, things that are today dubbed socialist.
@Vrojimmy You do know that the bull moose party was created out of spite for the republican party to take votes away from Taft since they would back him and not Roosevelt...right? Did you also know that the Bull Moose party platform alo included womens right to vote, welfare for women and children, relief for farmers during bad seasons, workers compensation and revisions in banking. His "national" healtcre plan only extended to workers and industries, All those things he wanted then we havetoday
@joeyjobear He created it in spite of Taft creating increasingly conservative policy. Taft fired Gilford Pinchot who was the last person from Roosevelt's administration he could rely on to carry out his agenda. He also started the National Parks System, created "the Trust Buster" for dissolving monopolies, backed progressive income taxes because he believed those who gained most from society should put more back into it. Sounds like a leftist to me. Nothing libertarian about his ideology.
@Vrojimmy You must be reading books by glen beck. He did not create Trust Buster look up the Sherman act and the Claymen act. Theodore use it to sue 45 companies because of the competition law that was enacted many years before him and interesting side note; Taft used those same bills to sue 75 companies. Those National park systems that set aside over 65 million acres for federal national parks to preserve the countries beauty and keep expansion to a minimum is a bad progressive thing?
@Vrojimmy He did create the Bull-Moose party because the Republicans would not back him for another term and he created it out of spite to pull votes away from the Rep. Its history and facts that even Glen Beck cant alter. Taft fired GiFFord Pinchot for manipulating and speaking out against the presidents (Taft) and Sec. of Interiors policies. You can read about it; Pinchot-Ballinger controversy. Where Ballinger wanted to sell national park land back to private companies.
@joeyjobear Reading Glen Beck? Please don't insult me. Pinchot did speak out against Ballinger to protect Roosevelt's nature conservation ideology and he used the trust busters to dissolve monopolies. This is something a "libertarian wouldn't do. You're not even reading my comments because I've stated this already. I don't understand what you're getting at. He was a leftist president and probably one of the best presidents this country has ever had, aside from being a champion of imperialism.
@Vrojimmy At least we can both agree that he was one of the greatest presidents this country has ever had and also maybe one of the most accomplished men in our American history. But our views on his policies seem to differ. I am a firm believer that in todays terms him and his policies would be of a conservative libertarian, You dont agree, oh, well. At least we found common ground on a man that was so great to America.
Best ever president named Roosevelt! He was an American populist who was decent to the Negroes, was against lynching, was a friend of Booker T. Washington, and served on an NAACP committee. He was for the working man, was for womens' rights and women voting.
Unfortunately, he was the father of American imperialism.
He cared about the Middle Class and fought to protect them -- what an evil Socialist!! President Obama is just as evil. Watch out. Vote Republican because the extremely wealthy are endanger of losing a house or two.
@This19 WHAT?!? The dude wasn't a socialist! He did what he could to close the enormous gap between the upper and lower classes during the gilded age. He helped bring down monopolies because they honestly aren't good for business.
TR's domestic policies were great, but his foreign policies started us down a dangerous path that we are still on. Still, he is one of the greatest presidents!
["I wish very much that the wrong people could be prevented entirely from breeding; and when the evil nature of these people is sufficiently flagrant, this should be done. Criminals should be sterilized and feeble-minded persons forbidden to leave offspring behind them... The emphasis should be laid on getting desirable people to breed..." -- Theodore Roosevelt]
I think that there has been no real great president in the 20th century,, other than Teddy Roosevelt. The rest have been self serving creeps. All of them. Not one american president has impressed, other than to get rich, send boys to war so they can profit, or create a chasm in world affairs.
@fallenvash I believe that would be my point. The 'other' Roosevelt knew about the pearl harbor attack in advance, but did nothing so as to allow the US to enter the war.
@xvoy2002 About every American President has been a war-mongerer, including Theodore Roosevelt who lets not forget that he was for the imperial colonization of the Philippines, which resulted in between 100 000 to a million civilian deaths. Even Obama today is an imperialist.
We should therefore judge American Presidents on their domestic policies. For your info, FDR did NOT know about Pearl Harbour, it was a matter of intelligence errors / mis-communication / mis-reading the radars.
@andyx1205 The U.S. govt. {Naval Intelligence} cracked Japan's ultra-secret code for radio communication in Aug. of 1941. The attack on Battleship Row @ Pearl Harbor was Dec. 7, 1941. F.D.R. sacrificed thousands of Americans to lead the country into war.
He is a man we could use again today. Amazing to think that he served his seven and a half years just over a century ago. Fascinating dynamo of a man.
A time when people believed their leaders and leaders listened to the people. This is when people lived in America. Today. I don't know where we live.
Teddy would lead the charge against global warming, take BP to task, end off shore oil drilling, and rebuild the wall of separation between church and state. Not a single modern Republican would vote for him.
@MrMainstreamAmerican roosevelt would be against the US being dependant on foreighn oil if anything he would perfect onshore and offshore drilling and the us wouldnt be under chinas thumb
Teddy would lead the charge against global warming, take BP to task, end off shore oil drilling, and rebuild the wall of separation between church and state. Not a single modern Republican would vote for him.
Crazy Teddy facts: The secret service watched him at all times, not for his protection, but the protection of those who crossed him. TDR had a brown-belt in judo. Teddy first used the term "White House". He was also decades ahead in race relations.
@Chucktanium he also was a boxer, hunter since the age of ~10, and could read close to 3 books a day when he wanted to. One day, out in the West, 5 indians on horseback with guns charged towards him while he was traveling on his horse. What did he do? He immediately stepped off his horse, pointed his rifle at the first of one and when they got within 100 yards, he shot at him. They, then, backed off and changed direction. Now, that is bravery.
Oh, I get it -- this was slowed down. Roosevelt's voice was fairly high. This is slowed down, so he sounds different. But I reckon it's him, after all.
@laofmoonster Not to mention, diplomat, third-party candidate, historian, and the original Chuck Norris/Dos Equis guy: "Death had to take Roosevelt sleeping, for if he had been awake, there would have been a fight."
This is TR speaking, but that's not how his voice really sounded. This recording is slowed down quite a bit. By all accounts, TR had a shrill, raspy, and almost falsetto voice. Source: "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt" by Morris. There's another video on here of the same speech, but at true speed/pitch.
@SmashingJack420Yes, I think he's been under-rated. I think possibly why his face was on Mt. Rushmore was that he was president when it was carved. Despite that he was very under-rated, and very progressive for his time.
Couldn't comment the way I wanted to and canceled. Don't imagine anyone would want to read the book length comments I can generate. I totally imagined him with a voice much different then this indicates! One of my favorite Presidents.. Sacrifices were made that allow selfishness in us on an individual level today. I am sorry we are free and weak enough at heart to put ourselves before others, that it is such a hectic struggle to survive amongst so much waste and plenty. Changes are coming!
as long as you know "One of your favourites" was one of the most openly racist ever. Just look at his rhtoric about the master white race ruling over the inferior Mexicans.
Forget about the people he slaughtered who were filipinos in around 1900 or the Native Americans. Maybe Germans today think Himmler was one of their favourites. Look at his writing & you'll see it's about the same.
@EBanonymous Bro, Theodore Roosevelt didn't start the Indian Wars nor the war in the Philippines. Not only that, but these wars were not racist, it had to do with culture which they (perhaps wrongly) found inferior. Notice how Ethiopia was left untouched during the scramble for Africa.
He didn't start the war in Phillipines; I said he fought there in the Rough Riders & was 1) involved in a war of agression to make Phillipines a US colony & 2) comitted war crimes.
The war was about control of natural resources; race was rhetoric used. Now Roosevelt himself was a racist. You've got to go the Nazis to find comparable rhetoric
Africa was the Europeans in Berlin Conference 1884/5 - different contest. Cuba, PR & Prhiiipines, Hawaii were US colonies - "our little area"
As for what he & others did to the NA Tibes, being part of that Holocaust is in itself one of the worst crimes in history. 13 million people in 1491 reduced to 210.000 by the 1919 US Census. That's the outright killing of people for their land.
Hitler said US actions against Native Americans inspired him. Those wars definately had race involved, as those "Merciless Indian Savages" as Jefferson calls them in the Dec of Indepence. Plenty of scholarly work on that.
@EBanonymous I certainly don't disagree that the slaughter of Native Americans is a stain on our nations history but there are two things I want to point out:
1. Europeans were not always the aggressor. In the 1600s, the Powhatan were fine with us having Jamestown......that chief died and the other chief decided to raid it for its supplies........and he killed every last person in the town they attacked.
The Powatans were not fine w/ the English at Jamestown. In fact, before that agreement, the 2 sides had already fought. Kidnapping the chiefs daughter, digging up & eating dead Powatans is what the English did.
They always took more land. Hence the issue. From the Pequot Massacare in 1637 onwards; the Europeans/Americans were the clear agressor. & they did it for land. It's no more a "stain" then what Hitler did to the Jews. It was a Crime Against Humanity. The NA weren't at fault.
You might as well refer to the Jewish Holocaust as a "stain" on Germany. Wouldn't do it? Then why trivalise te killing of 13 million brown skinned people? I don't blame you; it's part of American culture.
Some NA Tribes weren't peaceful; this irrelevent. The Europeans/Americans invaded w/ guns & used "savage warfare" of NA as an excuse, just like US used WMD in Iraq. They were going to take the land/oil anyway.
How many NA are left? 13 million in 1491 to just 210.000 by 1910
We need you, TR. LIVE AGAIN!!!!
Darkrunn 1 week ago
"Death had to take Theodore Roosevelt in his sleep. If he had been awake, there would have been a fight." -Vice President Thomas Marshall upon hearing of his passing
lesterwink23 2 weeks ago
dam ppl talked different bak den
deucekrewbitch 2 weeks ago
TEDDY ROCKS! We need a man like Roosevelt again today! PEACE! ~a~
AdonisKingAXC 3 weeks ago
Has this been proven or verified to be Teddy's voice? If so ... very cool.
lonewulf44 1 month ago
@lonewulf44 This is easily obtainable online from the library of congress. Some uploads are a bit faster, or this one is slowed down some, but it i s him.
TigerRocket 1 month ago
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NationalMovementMen 1 month ago
a great man, cemented in his beliefs and willing to stand for them with strength..
dRill3d 1 month ago
"Bully!"
Salix879 2 months ago
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Salix879 2 months ago
Awesome voice!!
mathmattify 2 months ago
Setting aside any consideration of his politics, just listen to him SPEAK: razor-sharp enunciation; great erudition. Compare him to any of today's One Party political whores (including the allegedly "eloquent" Obama) and try not to vomit....
AnnihilatingAngel 3 months ago
If this guy were a candidate today, I don't care what party he ran for I would have voted for him.
zemotheon12987 3 months ago 8
YOU BULLY ROBUST MACHO MAN, YOU
dollypatinson 3 months ago
He kindof sounds like Sean Connery
Jacarter99 4 months ago
Man boxing a kangaroo is a peculiar spectacle. But a kangaroo boxing a robot? Now I'm afraid you've lost me.
snufleufugus 4 months ago
Roosevelt now stars in my abridged series,Abridged of the Patriots
MBlueFlame 4 months ago
Best damn President ever. Born into enormous wealth but actually gave a damn about the common man, and had the guts to fight for him. Fiercely intelligent and unbelievably tough.
Screw the socipathic Republican plutocrats and the milquetoast Democratic wastrels. We need some Bull Moose, and election reform to put the two-party system and the uberpartisanship it breeds in the grave where it belongs.
melosebrainuhoh 4 months ago
i think it is absolutely fascinating that we can still listen to speeches of such charismatic and remarkable people who lived almost one hundred years ago
Leischna 4 months ago
melhor presidente que os estados unidos ja teve !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! theodore Roosevelt
gustavox900 5 months ago
Youtube doesn't seem to want me to post the URL of the speech transcript, but if you google "The Rights of the People to Rule by Theodore Roosevelt" you'll find the transcript.
wiscgaloot 6 months ago
TR is a blustering treasonous fool with deep insecurities stemming from his days as a sickly and athsmatic house-bound child. He "proves his manhood" by talking brash, warmongering, bullying his political rivals, and killing African elephants.
hunarf 6 months ago
@hunarf please read a proper biography and other people's accounts of him instead of thinking yourself clever for looking up a few facts on wikipedia and thinking you know anything about this man. If Roosevelt and his feats aren't "man" enough, then we are all hopeless, effeminate milksops.
junkevin 6 months ago
@junkevin mmhmm I don't read Wikipedia and if you really want to make a saint out of this warmongering coward then I suggest you stop reading Wikipedia and see that he was about empire building and big business and used the constitution as a wet nap to get us into a unprovoked war with Spain which effectively turned us into a model of the British empire which we see today, Fuck Theodore Roosevelt he was the turn of the century George Bush and Barack Obama.
hunarf 6 months ago
@hunarf way to come up with an original comeback about me reading wikipedia. (That's sarcasm btw). I'm aware of all the mistakes and accomplishments he made. And although I take back my statement of you getting your sources from wiki, for you seem well-educated, it doesn't change the fact that you are exaggerating and twisting everything he did. He always strived for justice and never allowed even a little bit of corruption even well before his presidency. Plz read more on his earlier years
junkevin 6 months ago
This is a president who delivered a speech AFTER he was just shot. Tough motherfucker.
junkers1337 6 months ago 4
Why did he called himself a Conservative and a Progressive and believe in self-reliance but imposed some regulation in business activity?
n64wilbert 7 months ago
@n64wilbert Because he was smart. Party lines weren't what was important to him. Politics shouldn't be about taking sides, winning, losing, planting your feet, or making concessions. It should be about listening to the ideas from both sides, taking the facts into account, and creating a policy that meets the needs of people now, and prepares us for a better future. America needs another Roosevelt. Till we get one, we're just wallowing in limbo.
anathmaticd 6 months ago
@anathmaticd i cant argue because u dont even know history. We'd be damned if we had another Roosevelt.
MrTitomeister 4 months ago
@n64wilbert Because the meaning of political labels changes over time. Our modern set of labels has changed dramatically since they were coined in the late 1700s. Back then, both Socialists and Libertarians would be counted as "Left-wing", with "Right-wing" meaning the people who wanted to go back to monarchy.
PaulWiele 6 months ago
@PaulWiele I believe that US political structure was derived by British system watch {The Decline and Triumph of Classical Liberalism} you may not agree on what he advocated's but there's tremendous amount fact's in his lecture.
n64wilbert 6 months ago
@PaulWiele No, that is not correct. Republicans and Democrats have changed their views. Right and Left wing still mean the same thing. Right is always small government, Left is always big government.
MrTitomeister 4 months ago
@MrTitomeister
Yes, the parties have changed, but the labels have, too. The original meaning was that "right" was pro-establishment and "left" was anti-establishment. From the Wikipedia article on Left-Right Politics: "The terms "left" and "right" appeared during the French Revolution of 1789 when members of the National Assembly divided into supporters of the king to the president's right and supporters of the revolution to his left." Some of the people on the Left then were anarchists...
PaulWiele 4 months ago
@n64wilbert also, he was a "Conservationist", not a "Conservative" two totally different things. c ya.
MrTitomeister 4 months ago
@MrTitomeister No, Mr. Roosevelt was very much a conservative. However, he was a 'progressive' conservative (even forming the progressive "Bull Moose" Party for 1912), which is absent in today's conservatism.
orion7763 4 months ago
@orion7763 lol no! He was a Progressive Republican! He split the Republican party in the nomination between him and Taft, Taft being less progressive, during the election of 1912. Roosevelt was NOT conservative, he was dubbed a "Republican" at that time, but his fiscal policies very much indeed mirrored liberal ideals of today. You are mixing up the change in views of the Republican party vs. the Democratic party with the Conservatives and Liberals.
MrTitomeister 4 months ago
Also, to Roosevelt, """"Conservationism"""""" meant the wise use of natural resources. Opposed to "Conservatism" meaning, fiscally, the conservation of money used by government and resistance from federal government intervention with the economy, which Roosevelt DEFINITELY did not do. He dramatically increased the role of government in peoples lives.
MrTitomeister 4 months ago
As a man every time I think about Teddy I think of a challenge to myself to be a better man, to stand for whats right and not whats easiest, to lead, and to, even in my mistakes, be unwavering.
tsar216 7 months ago 2
@tsar216 That is the effect he has on me, as well.
ElPayasoMalo 7 months ago
Now this was a real man and a true hero. "No man can lead a public career really worth leading, no man can act with rugged independence in serious crises, nor strike at great abuses, nor afford to make powerful and unscrupulous foes, if he is himself vulnerable in his private character." TR
TheAolele 8 months ago
By the way is there a transcript of this speech available somewhere?
JudahDG 8 months ago
There's a reason why TR got a spot on Mount Rushmore. Arguably the greatest President we ever had. He inspired generations of moderates, that balance is needed to run a strong nation.
"We are against misconduct, not against wealth"
JudahDG 8 months ago
Theodore Roosevelt...Colonel Sanders on steroids.
KrfNYC2 8 months ago
@KrfNYC2 No. He is, put simply, everything people say Chuck Norris is. Unlike Sanders, TR was a REAL Colonel, which he earned by DEMOTING HIMSELF from Secretary of the Navy so he could start a cavalry regiment and kill hundreds of Spaniards on the front lines. He fought and killed a panther with a pocket knife. He kept lions and bears as pets. He was a boxer and a wrestler and had a brown belt in Judo. He jogged up mountains for fun. He is the epitome of manliness and the biggest badass ever.
ElPayasoMalo 8 months ago 6
@ElPayasoMalo Damn.
KrfNYC2 7 months ago
A lot of republicans today wish they were 1/3rd of what this man was. Yet for some reason you do not get anyone Like him today why?
corm1000 8 months ago
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@corm1000 Because Ron Paul doesn't get media coverage.
Vostokification 5 months ago
You will never be as manly as he is.
buffer545 9 months ago
teddy roosevelt was an athiast, to be true to america and how we were founded and should still follow these beliefs, this would not have been my pick of a president.
musiclyfe5 9 months ago
@musiclyfe5 Most of the founding fathers were Diests, which is as close to Atheism as most would admit at that time.
MrAmptech 9 months ago 2
@MrAmptech
Diets are Dutch smartass
The Dutch were/are Dutch Reformed / Protestant. Romans of the American continent
Builders of New York
Ain't unholy/atheism about them in any way
wayhlan 5 months ago
@musiclyfe5 TR was Dutch Reformed.
ElPayasoMalo 8 months ago
Bully
scottpilgrim88 9 months ago
Teddy is plenty interesting. US citizens are just uneducated. Why else would Justin Bieber have over 500,000 hits on youtube?
jrichboy23 10 months ago
@jrichboy23 can we please not bring up justin bieber? like yea, we get it. hes annoying. this is teddy roosevelt? what does bieber have to do with anything presidential?
IKIndaLoveScreamo 10 months ago
How can people not like this?!?!? I mean its freaking Teddy Roosevelt!!!! THE Bull Moose!!
newyorkyy 10 months ago
Well, I would vote for him...
enochsneed 11 months ago
@enochsneed I would too . he and FDR are both two of my many heros.
Friendlykiller2 7 months ago
he sounds a little like Doc Brown.
ochoastl 11 months ago
I hate to say it, but he sounds kinda goofy.
ebolamunkee 11 months ago
@ebolamunkee
much of this is due to the deterioration of the sound recording, I'm sure when he spoke at the time he sounded a lot more natural
GameMiestro 9 months ago
i love theodore roosevelt. this guy is fucking badass. i doubt chuck norris could look this guy in the eyes.
Orthropox14 11 months ago 6
"foondamental issue bafore our people..." amazing to listen to these voices from the past.
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infokemp 1 year ago
because of the lacluster recording quality (its old I get it) but does he talk about Sweden or am I completely stoopid?
jkgatling 1 year ago
bullshit he had a high pitched voice
jjaniero 1 year ago
I find the question of whether people can rule themselves to be insulting and condescending. In fact that question was answered by law over 100 years prior to this speech and yet we still argue over it today. Technology changes but politics and ideology stays the same.
DanzHanzen 1 year ago
@DanzHanzen Probably because it's both true and untrue. Some people can rule themselves, some can't. The problem is there's also people who can and can't rule -others- and who can and can't BE ruled by others, and even if we could figure out for sure who they were, they wouldn't go along with being assigned to it. It'd roughly end up being half the people ruling the other half, or as much as a 10 to 1 ratio.
KairuHakubi 11 months ago
WHOO! TEDDY RULES! sorry. big teddy roosevelt fan
eastwing329 1 year ago
"Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose." -TR
jak1anorue 1 year ago 55
This is the kind of president i wish we had now, Strong, Pragmatic, and not bowing down to business.
drpeppa2357 1 year ago 68
@drpeppa2357 Not to mention a complete badass.
RedSandStudios 1 year ago
@drpeppa2357 and extremely intelligent
thepickletrain 11 months ago
@drpeppa2357 YES! I will punch the hell outta his name if it ever appears on a modern day ballot (if it were possible for him to come back from the dead AND run for a third term, that is).
ElPayasoMalo 11 months ago
@drpeppa2357 But also not unwilling to work with business either. He was,a s you said, pragmatic, willing to work for compromise for the best of everyone. Today neither party seems to be willing to do this. They would rather either sell themselves to business and so taint politics or do everything they can to tear apart business, and therefore damage the economy. No one works for the best of everyone.
PierzStyx 11 months ago
Somehow I figured TR would sound more like a cowboy.
brnleague99 1 year ago 3
@brnleague99 I would have thought that too.
jbjindra 1 year ago
@WillShakespreare2007
There is no way you can be this stupid.
RapeYoFace 1 year ago
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jasonroberts8291 1 year ago
Yeah they don't build em like this anymore =D
Prometheukles 1 year ago 2
The US should keep their nasty hands out of the rest of the American continent, as well as China and other countries.
deerwolf1 1 year ago
The nation's greatest president, ever. I want him Back. The republicans of today could learn a lot from him; in fact, it was Taft's brand that led to the modern day state of the Republican party that led to the split, that this speech is about.
alecifel 1 year ago 2
An American war criminal - "I should welcome almost any war, for I think this country needs one" - Theodore Roosevelt.
He oversaw the creation of concentration camps in the Philippines and the systematic slaughter of a million Filipinos in the name of Imperialism.
WillShakespeare2007 1 year ago
@WillShakespeare2007 boohoo?
mafiaslicka 1 year ago
@mafiaslicka boohoo does not work with a question mark.
WillShakespeare2007 1 year ago
@WillShakespeare2007 He did what he did in the name of America. To make a country great you will have to harm those of lesser nations. That's how it works. To expand you have to take things from weaker civilizations. Thats how it works.
genralr12 1 year ago
@genralr12 The country with the higheat standard of living in the world is Norway. Who have they harmed or killed? Japan has become one of the most powerful economies in the world. Who did they take from? Economic wealth and success comes through peaceful trade and war is simply costly both in money and lives. You are totally wrong in your assessment of the world.
WillShakespeare2007 1 year ago
@WillShakespeare2007 ummm... Japan fucked everyone in the ass....
genralr12 1 year ago
@genralr12 The wars Japan had cost them lives, money and the destruction of many cities. They became the one of the top economies through peaceful trade around the world not a penny from war. That is my point. This man is a war criminal pure and simple. The crimes America committed in the Philippines are some of the worst crimes against humanity in history.
WillShakespeare2007 1 year ago
@WillShakespeare2007 well idk wat to tell u. He did wat he did during a time where Imperialism was seen as what the biggest and baddest of nations did. Thats how it was done. War is a product of man. Alot can b gained or lost through war. and without war, the U.S. would not b the U.S. The wars we've fought hav defined us today (for better or for worse). But every country in the world has its bad figures. Germany, England, France, Russia, U.S. Japan, China, etc etc etc.
genralr12 1 year ago
@genralr12 that still doesnt make war, imperialism, and interventionism right.
chaset51 1 year ago
@chaset51 now i never said it was right lol. but at the time it was seen as right. jus like back in the day slavery was seen as right. it isnt anymore. but once upon a time things we see as wrong today were right a long time ago.
genralr12 1 year ago
@WillShakespeare2007 Japan was a top economy through peace?! HAHAHAHA, once you have equal and peaceful trade you are not a top economy.
devsteel13 1 year ago
@devsteel13 What on earth are you talking about? Of course you can become one of the top economies in the world through peaceful trade. Japan became the second largest economy in the world with firing a single shot through trade. China has now become the second largest economy through trade. America is trying to hang onto its place by mass slaughter and stealing oil so perhaps that is where you are coming from.
WillShakespeare2007 1 year ago
TR -- a great Progressive. He supported government regulation in areas such as food safety and Wall Street. A great environmentalist and a statesman who won the Nobel Peace Prize for hosting a conference to end a war. Does that sound more like a modern day Democrat or Republican?
SSArcher11 1 year ago
a privilege to "hear" the voice of such a great American gentleman.
joewilliamson09 1 year ago
Pres. Theodore Roosevelt, " that we have no business to permit the perpetuation of citizens of the wrong type .... The problem cannot be met unless we give consideration to the influence of heredity .... I wish that the wrong people be prevented from breeding; and when the evil nature of these people is sufficiently flagrant, this should be done .... The emphasis should be laid on getting desirable people to breed." nice teddy bear eh?anything in books is a cover for the evil they did.
xtiml 1 year ago
@SlyNicolai Good call. He was a real American.
apollo13jim 1 year ago
A REAL American. Wish we had about 200 million more like him. We wouldn't be in the mess we are in right now.
And un-American liberals like Obama would have never risen to power.
apollo13jim 1 year ago
@apollo13jim Wow you have no idea what you're talking about and you clearly don't know anything about TR. You know that TR broke away from the republican party because William Taft was creating increasingly more conservative policies right?
People seem to be getting confused that because TR served as president under the Republican party that he was a conservative. On the contrary, his policies were what we would consider today to be very liberal and outright socialist. Great president RIP TR.
Vrojimmy 1 year ago
@Vrojimmy Wrong.
apollo13jim 1 year ago
@apollo13jim I just recently finished reading two biographies written on TR and you're gonna call me wrong?
How about you grow a pair and provide some arguments rather than fall into denial like the rest of the extremist conservatives.
Vrojimmy 1 year ago
@Vrojimmy I read six biographies and participated in the writing and research of another. You're wrong. I'm right. Man, that has to HURT.
Another one emasculated right here in front of everyone.
apollo13jim 1 year ago
@apollo13jim Or you're a liar. You're a joke.
Vrojimmy 1 year ago
@Vrojimmy I love this. It's so much fun. You're wrong. I'm right. Again.
apollo13jim 1 year ago
@Vrojimmy You are completely wrong. He was a conservative libertarian by todays standards. He wanted less government and people to fend for themselves. HE HATED Wilson and his policies. You are trying to link todays political values to past political values and what they meant then. By your methodology you could say that in todays political values and how people are half of the founding fathers are down right socialist. I think you should throw in more fact just making baseless communist claims
joeyjobear 1 year ago
@joeyjobear Wow, you're kidding right? Go look up the policies of the Bull Moose Party aka Theodore Roosevelt's PROGRESSIVE party. He campaigned for national health care and worker unions, things that are today dubbed socialist.
Vrojimmy 1 year ago
@Vrojimmy You do know that the bull moose party was created out of spite for the republican party to take votes away from Taft since they would back him and not Roosevelt...right? Did you also know that the Bull Moose party platform alo included womens right to vote, welfare for women and children, relief for farmers during bad seasons, workers compensation and revisions in banking. His "national" healtcre plan only extended to workers and industries, All those things he wanted then we havetoday
joeyjobear 1 year ago
@joeyjobear He created it in spite of Taft creating increasingly conservative policy. Taft fired Gilford Pinchot who was the last person from Roosevelt's administration he could rely on to carry out his agenda. He also started the National Parks System, created "the Trust Buster" for dissolving monopolies, backed progressive income taxes because he believed those who gained most from society should put more back into it. Sounds like a leftist to me. Nothing libertarian about his ideology.
Vrojimmy 1 year ago
@Vrojimmy You must be reading books by glen beck. He did not create Trust Buster look up the Sherman act and the Claymen act. Theodore use it to sue 45 companies because of the competition law that was enacted many years before him and interesting side note; Taft used those same bills to sue 75 companies. Those National park systems that set aside over 65 million acres for federal national parks to preserve the countries beauty and keep expansion to a minimum is a bad progressive thing?
joeyjobear 1 year ago
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joeyjobear 1 year ago
@Vrojimmy He did create the Bull-Moose party because the Republicans would not back him for another term and he created it out of spite to pull votes away from the Rep. Its history and facts that even Glen Beck cant alter. Taft fired GiFFord Pinchot for manipulating and speaking out against the presidents (Taft) and Sec. of Interiors policies. You can read about it; Pinchot-Ballinger controversy. Where Ballinger wanted to sell national park land back to private companies.
joeyjobear 1 year ago
@joeyjobear Reading Glen Beck? Please don't insult me. Pinchot did speak out against Ballinger to protect Roosevelt's nature conservation ideology and he used the trust busters to dissolve monopolies. This is something a "libertarian wouldn't do. You're not even reading my comments because I've stated this already. I don't understand what you're getting at. He was a leftist president and probably one of the best presidents this country has ever had, aside from being a champion of imperialism.
Vrojimmy 1 year ago
@Vrojimmy At least we can both agree that he was one of the greatest presidents this country has ever had and also maybe one of the most accomplished men in our American history. But our views on his policies seem to differ. I am a firm believer that in todays terms him and his policies would be of a conservative libertarian, You dont agree, oh, well. At least we found common ground on a man that was so great to America.
joeyjobear 1 year ago
Best ever president named Roosevelt! He was an American populist who was decent to the Negroes, was against lynching, was a friend of Booker T. Washington, and served on an NAACP committee. He was for the working man, was for womens' rights and women voting.
Unfortunately, he was the father of American imperialism.
hatmap 1 year ago
Great White Hunter
canadianbacon007 1 year ago 2
Please post a transcript in the description.
BombCombo 1 year ago
Sounds like a mix between Sean Connery and that one actor whose name escapes me. Was in Jarassic Park... the voice in the car... Meh...
Pretty cool though. A bit creepy too.
iwebber88 1 year ago
Let's be serious. He was a politician.
DanzHanzen 1 year ago
hes BLOOD BOILS!
akuvirtanen123 1 year ago
fucken epic!
bsebas81 1 year ago
He cared about the Middle Class and fought to protect them -- what an evil Socialist!! President Obama is just as evil. Watch out. Vote Republican because the extremely wealthy are endanger of losing a house or two.
This19 1 year ago
@This19 haha
he did so much for the American people it was only the rich that hated him
husna99 1 year ago
@This19 WHAT?!? The dude wasn't a socialist! He did what he could to close the enormous gap between the upper and lower classes during the gilded age. He helped bring down monopolies because they honestly aren't good for business.
MadaraXIII 1 year ago
TR's domestic policies were great, but his foreign policies started us down a dangerous path that we are still on. Still, he is one of the greatest presidents!
peachkim 1 year ago
Educated, tough yet polite, avid reader, cared about nature, and always pushed himself to his limits.
Not just a great american, but also one of the greatest men in history.
bastardoi 1 year ago
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AlongTheFarClimbDown 1 year ago
I wanna hug him! :)
joejoeholmes 1 year ago
Every American needs to hear this speech, it is so relevant to our current social-political-economic situation.
youmepolitics 1 year ago
I own his old rocking chair
royalassassin2010 1 year ago
I think that there has been no real great president in the 20th century,, other than Teddy Roosevelt. The rest have been self serving creeps. All of them. Not one american president has impressed, other than to get rich, send boys to war so they can profit, or create a chasm in world affairs.
xvoy2002 1 year ago
@xvoy2002 What about the other Roosevelt? He did some amazing things too, I recall him trying to hold out on the war, Pearl Harbor changed that
fallenvash 1 year ago
@fallenvash I believe that would be my point. The 'other' Roosevelt knew about the pearl harbor attack in advance, but did nothing so as to allow the US to enter the war.
xvoy2002 1 year ago
@xvoy2002 About every American President has been a war-mongerer, including Theodore Roosevelt who lets not forget that he was for the imperial colonization of the Philippines, which resulted in between 100 000 to a million civilian deaths. Even Obama today is an imperialist.
We should therefore judge American Presidents on their domestic policies. For your info, FDR did NOT know about Pearl Harbour, it was a matter of intelligence errors / mis-communication / mis-reading the radars.
andyx1205 1 year ago
@andyx1205 The U.S. govt. {Naval Intelligence} cracked Japan's ultra-secret code for radio communication in Aug. of 1941. The attack on Battleship Row @ Pearl Harbor was Dec. 7, 1941. F.D.R. sacrificed thousands of Americans to lead the country into war.
AlongTheFarClimbDown 1 year ago
Quite frankly I think he was the best president, or at least deserves top 5 status.
cosmicforums 1 year ago
He is a man we could use again today. Amazing to think that he served his seven and a half years just over a century ago. Fascinating dynamo of a man.
LePrince1890 1 year ago
theodore lived one of the most extraordinary lives, I have ever seen. Great man. Great husband. Great leader.
redarrowhead2 1 year ago
@redarrowhead2 Great husband??? What are you, his fucking wife?
postigaceltic 1 year ago
A time when people believed their leaders and leaders listened to the people. This is when people lived in America. Today. I don't know where we live.
westy44cal 1 year ago
Teddy would lead the charge against global warming, take BP to task, end off shore oil drilling, and rebuild the wall of separation between church and state. Not a single modern Republican would vote for him.
MrMainstreamAmerican 1 year ago 2
@MrMainstreamAmerican roosevelt would be against the US being dependant on foreighn oil if anything he would perfect onshore and offshore drilling and the us wouldnt be under chinas thumb
phillip549 1 year ago
Teddy would lead the charge against global warming, take BP to task, end off shore oil drilling, and rebuild the wall of separation between church and state. Not a single modern Republican would vote for him.
MrMainstreamAmerican 1 year ago
Are there any surviving nude photos of Teddy Roosevelt?
mrspatrickcampbell 1 year ago
Crazy Teddy facts: The secret service watched him at all times, not for his protection, but the protection of those who crossed him. TDR had a brown-belt in judo. Teddy first used the term "White House". He was also decades ahead in race relations.
Chucktanium 1 year ago
@Chucktanium he also was a boxer, hunter since the age of ~10, and could read close to 3 books a day when he wanted to. One day, out in the West, 5 indians on horseback with guns charged towards him while he was traveling on his horse. What did he do? He immediately stepped off his horse, pointed his rifle at the first of one and when they got within 100 yards, he shot at him. They, then, backed off and changed direction. Now, that is bravery.
redarrowhead2 1 year ago
Oh, I get it -- this was slowed down. Roosevelt's voice was fairly high. This is slowed down, so he sounds different. But I reckon it's him, after all.
Jona910 1 year ago
Is this really Teddy Roosevelt? It doesn't sound at all like him, judging from other audio (and filmed) archives.
Jona910 1 year ago
Naturalist, trust-buster, progressive, intellectual, and badass. Why aren't there politicians like this anymore?
laofmoonster 1 year ago
@laofmoonster Not to mention, diplomat, third-party candidate, historian, and the original Chuck Norris/Dos Equis guy: "Death had to take Roosevelt sleeping, for if he had been awake, there would have been a fight."
laofmoonster 1 year ago
@laofmoonster Teddy Roosevelt doesn't sleep, he waits!
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jekkels 1 year ago
This is TR speaking, but that's not how his voice really sounded. This recording is slowed down quite a bit. By all accounts, TR had a shrill, raspy, and almost falsetto voice. Source: "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt" by Morris. There's another video on here of the same speech, but at true speed/pitch.
thebrock82 1 year ago
Theodore was one of the most under-rated presidents we've ever had.
gotch09 1 year ago
@gotch09 You think Teddy was under-rated? HIS FACE IS CARVED INTO MOUNT RUSHMORE ALONGSIDE WASHINGTON, JEFFERSON, AND LINCOLN
SmashingJack420 1 year ago
@SmashingJack420Yes, I think he's been under-rated. I think possibly why his face was on Mt. Rushmore was that he was president when it was carved. Despite that he was very under-rated, and very progressive for his time.
gotch09 1 year ago
@SmashingJack420 still underrated. We need to brand his face on 1/5 babies born in the USA.
redarrowhead2 1 year ago
Call me easily impressed, but it's still a miracle to me to hear the voice of someone who's been dead for so long.
FiendsInRedSatin1 1 year ago
when did the american presidents stop sounding british?
FunBoy15 1 year ago
@FunBoy15 I think it was Wilson
AssHat313 1 year ago
Couldn't comment the way I wanted to and canceled. Don't imagine anyone would want to read the book length comments I can generate. I totally imagined him with a voice much different then this indicates! One of my favorite Presidents.. Sacrifices were made that allow selfishness in us on an individual level today. I am sorry we are free and weak enough at heart to put ourselves before others, that it is such a hectic struggle to survive amongst so much waste and plenty. Changes are coming!
ssunfish 1 year ago
@ssunfish
as long as you know "One of your favourites" was one of the most openly racist ever. Just look at his rhtoric about the master white race ruling over the inferior Mexicans.
Forget about the people he slaughtered who were filipinos in around 1900 or the Native Americans. Maybe Germans today think Himmler was one of their favourites. Look at his writing & you'll see it's about the same.
EBanonymous 1 year ago
@EBanonymous Bro, Theodore Roosevelt didn't start the Indian Wars nor the war in the Philippines. Not only that, but these wars were not racist, it had to do with culture which they (perhaps wrongly) found inferior. Notice how Ethiopia was left untouched during the scramble for Africa.
UNCfan102 1 year ago
@UNCfan102
He didn't start the war in Phillipines; I said he fought there in the Rough Riders & was 1) involved in a war of agression to make Phillipines a US colony & 2) comitted war crimes.
The war was about control of natural resources; race was rhetoric used. Now Roosevelt himself was a racist. You've got to go the Nazis to find comparable rhetoric
Africa was the Europeans in Berlin Conference 1884/5 - different contest. Cuba, PR & Prhiiipines, Hawaii were US colonies - "our little area"
EBanonymous 1 year ago
@UNCfan102
As for what he & others did to the NA Tibes, being part of that Holocaust is in itself one of the worst crimes in history. 13 million people in 1491 reduced to 210.000 by the 1919 US Census. That's the outright killing of people for their land.
Hitler said US actions against Native Americans inspired him. Those wars definately had race involved, as those "Merciless Indian Savages" as Jefferson calls them in the Dec of Indepence. Plenty of scholarly work on that.
EBanonymous 1 year ago
@EBanonymous I certainly don't disagree that the slaughter of Native Americans is a stain on our nations history but there are two things I want to point out:
1. Europeans were not always the aggressor. In the 1600s, the Powhatan were fine with us having Jamestown......that chief died and the other chief decided to raid it for its supplies........and he killed every last person in the town they attacked.
2. Native Americans conquered each other as well.
UNCfan102 1 year ago
@UNCfan102
The Powatans were not fine w/ the English at Jamestown. In fact, before that agreement, the 2 sides had already fought. Kidnapping the chiefs daughter, digging up & eating dead Powatans is what the English did.
They always took more land. Hence the issue. From the Pequot Massacare in 1637 onwards; the Europeans/Americans were the clear agressor. & they did it for land. It's no more a "stain" then what Hitler did to the Jews. It was a Crime Against Humanity. The NA weren't at fault.
EBanonymous 1 year ago
@UNCfan102
You might as well refer to the Jewish Holocaust as a "stain" on Germany. Wouldn't do it? Then why trivalise te killing of 13 million brown skinned people? I don't blame you; it's part of American culture.
Some NA Tribes weren't peaceful; this irrelevent. The Europeans/Americans invaded w/ guns & used "savage warfare" of NA as an excuse, just like US used WMD in Iraq. They were going to take the land/oil anyway.
How many NA are left? 13 million in 1491 to just 210.000 by 1910
EBanonymous 1 year ago