Theodore Roosevelt: A True American Is an Idealist, and Acts Nobly, As Had Abraham Lincoln and George Washington
He “cannot but feel within him that lift toward things higher and nobler, which can never be bestowed by the enjoyment of mere material prosperity.”.
In the late 1890s, Roosevelt wrote two books, “American Ideals and Other Essays”, and “The Strenuous Life”, both devoted not only to describing what it is like to be an American, but also presenting his vision of how Americans should think and act.
That book contained a quotation designed to instill...
In the late 1890s, Roosevelt wrote two books, “American Ideals and Other Essays”, and “The Strenuous Life”, both devoted not only to describing what it is like to be an American, but also presenting his vision of how Americans should think and act.
That book contained a quotation designed to instill reverence for Washington and Lincoln, and intended to strike the elevated and idealistic tone that TR felt was appropriate for a true American. Typed quotation signed, from “American Ideals and Other Essays”: “The nation's debt to Washington and Lincoln is not confined to what it owes them for its material well-being, incalculable though this debt is. Beyond the fact that we are an independent and united people, with half a continent as our heritage, lies the fact that every American is richer by the noble deeds and noble words of Washington and Lincoln. Each of us who reads the Gettysburg speech or the second inaugural address of the greatest American of the nineteenth century, or who studies the long campaigns and lofty statesmanship of that other American who was even greater, cannot but feel within him that lift toward things higher and nobler which can never be bestowed by the enjoyment of mere material prosperity.”
A true American is an idealist, he is saying, not a mere materialist, and acts nobly, as Washington and Lincoln had. He believed this to his core, and acted upon it in his own life. That is why he was, and remains, enduringly fascinating.
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