MB Civic

By E. J. Dionne | Tuesday, May 27, 2008 | The Washington Post

“…Their new progressive patriotism bears some resemblance to the old progressive patriotism of Theodore Roosevelt. ‘We cannot meet the future,’ Roosevelt said in a 1916 Memorial Day speech, ‘either by mere gross materialism or by mere silly sentimentalism; above all, we cannot meet it if we attempt to balance gross materialism in action by silly sentimentalism in words.’

For good measure, the trust-buster also declared that ‘the big business man’ must ‘recognize the fact that his business activities, while beneficial to himself and his associates, must also justify themselves by being beneficial to the men who work for him and to the public which he serves.’….”…BS

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/26/AR2008052601741_pf.html