We of the great modern democracies, must strive unceasingly to make our several Countries, lands in which a poor man who works hard can live comfortably and honestly, and in which a rich man cannot live dishonestly nor in slothful avoidance of duty.
And yet, we must judge rich man and poor man alike by a standard which rests on conduct and not on caste. And we must frown with the same stern severity on the mean and vicious envy which hates and would plunder a man because he is well off, and on the brutal and selfish arrogance, which looks down on and exploits the man with whom life has gone hard.
Theodore Roosevelt
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt was born in New York City, October 27, 1858
Was appointed Police Commissioner of New York City, 1895
Aided in establishing the Independence of Cuba, 1898
Was elected Governor of the State of New York, 1898
Served as President of the United States, 1901-1909
He died, January 6, 1919.