A CODE TO LIVE BY...

A CODE TO LIVE BY...

President Theodore Roosevelt made this important statement below in 1910 long before bloggers and the internet came along. People have always been critical and hateful and he understood that well. As Roosevelt said below…”we should spend ourselves for a worthy cause.” The bloggers, the lazy, the complainers, and the self-serving of the world do not live by this code below or spend themselves for any worthy cause as many of you do every day. Roosevelt and his brother were impassioned patriots and motivators. Roosevelt’s brother was honored with the Medal of Honor for his heroic action in France during WWI. He gave his life for a great cause. Great men and women have great understanding of perseverance.

Richard Tate

IT'S NOT THE CRITIC WHO COUNTS

"It is not the critic who counts: or the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

"Citizenship in a Republic,"

President Theodore Roosevelt speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910