Photo President Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt courtesy Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library.

Former President Theodore Roosevelt once gave a speech of which the following quote and this headline originated. In it, he made an observation that most today can see clearly. It’s around us everyday and we’ve grown up with it all our lives most likely, something we call, the silent majority.

Unfortunately, that silent majority is a big reason we are facing the ailing problems in this country we have. It’s because they remained silent when they should have been speaking up: they’ve remained seated when they should have been standing up and shaking their fist and pitchfork: they stood still when they should have been chasing cheats, liars and tyrants with tar and feathers: and they’re still not speaking, standing out chasing thieves, robbers and tyrants because they’re still afraid of what somebody might say or think about them instead of fulfilling their destiny before God Almighty in protecting their children, community, state and nation from dangerous ravenous wolves we call communists, tyrants and traitors!

We have not been called to be timid and quiet in a time of dire emergency and attack. Rather we are called to be bold as a Lion in the face of trouble, not due to the absence of it.

Passivity and effeminacy must be routed out of the American male and true manhood with courage must stand up and be seen, heard and felt! In my old typing class we were instructed to type the words of John Adams just prior to the Tea Party action: now is time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.

These are the ideas Roosevelt was talking about in his speech at the Sorbonne in Paris, France where he spoke. The character traits of courage, boldness, and tenacity are much needed today to stand against bullies and cutthroat modern Bolsheviks versus the silent majority who sit the sidelines and watch! Today is the time for action to restore our Republic, Now is the time!

Roosevelt said:
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them 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, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in 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 fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” —- Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt, from his speech entitled “Citizenship In A Republic” April 23, 1910

Roosevelt was an ardent enthusiast for all people to get involved in the world around them regardless of their status or station in life. He urged men and women everywhere to get “in the arena” and not stay on the sidelines. He said “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” Perhaps it’s time we all did so.

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