Letter to S. Stanwood Menken, chairman, committee on Congress of Constructive Patriotism (January 10, 1917). Roosevelt’s sister, Mrs. Douglas Robinson, read the letter to a national meeting, January 26, 1917. Reported in Proceedings of the Congress of Constructive Patriotism, Washington, D.C., January 25–27, 1917 (1917), p. 172
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Context: Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood—the virtues that made America. The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
Letter to S. Stanwood Menken, chairman, committee on Congress of Constructive Patriotism (January 10, 1917). Roosevelt’s sister, Mrs. Douglas Robinson, read the letter to a national meeting, January 26, 1917. Reported in Proceedings of the Congress of Constructive Patriotism, Washington, D.C., January 25–27, 1917 (1917), p. 172
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Howard Bloom (1943) American publicist and author
The Problem with God: The Tale of a Twisted Confession
The God Problem: How a Godless Cosmos Creates (2012)
“Do not seek to be loved at any price, because Love has no price.”
Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra
Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), What should survivors tell their children?
“Perhaps justified violence is better than peace at any price.”
Edmund Cooper (1926–1982) British writer
The Uncertain Midnight (1958)
William Barclay (1907–1978) Church of Scotland minister and academic
William Barclay (1964) The Gospel of John. Vol. 2, p. 77
“Labour was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things.”
Adam Smith (1723–1790) Scottish moral philosopher and political economist
It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all the wealth of the world was originally purchased; and its value, to those who possess it, and who want to exchange it for some new productions, is precisely equal to the quantity of labour which it can enable them to purchase or command.
Source: The Wealth of Nations (1776), Book I, Chapter V, p. 38.
“But if the labourers could live on air they could not be bought at any price.”
Karl Marx (1818–1883) German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist
Vol. I, Ch. 24, Section 4, pg. 657.
(Buch I) (1867)
“Prosperity and security are ours in heaven. We will live in peace and safety.”
Paul P. Enns (1937) American theologian
Source: Heaven Revealed (Moody, 2011), p. 125
“The loss of…honest and industrious men's lives cannot be valued at any price.”
William Bradford (1590–1657) English Separatist leader in Leiden, Holland and in Plymouth Colony (1590-1657)
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