Sunday, October 11, 2026

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President or any other public official save exactly to degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him in so far as he efficiently serves the country.

— Theodore Roosevelt

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The legacy file stopped after “public official…”. The Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library identifies that truncation as a misleading misquotation and supplies the omitted qualification.