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February 03, 2006
Against Mere Cynicism and Negation
Gabriel Ladeen, a United States Marine, has penned a column that drew my attention to a Theodore Roosevelt quotation worth passing along:
For educated men of weak fibre, there lies a real danger in that species of literary work which appeals to their cultivated senses because of its scholarly and pleasant tone, but which enjoins as the proper attitude to assume in public life one of mere criticism and negation; which teaches the adoption toward public men and public affairs of that sneering tone which so surely denotes a mean and small mind.I'd love to eavesdrop on Teddy Roosevelt and Ernest Hemingway talking politics over whiskey.
Posted by Conor at February 3, 2006 03:09 AM
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