Thursday, November 18, 2010

President Roosevelt

This excerpt from a 1905 speech by President Theodore Roosevelt was in my inbox today. I felt led to share it with you all.

 Speaking to the National Congress of Mothers, he said:


No piled-up wealth, no splendor of material growth, no brilliance of artistic development, will permanently avail any people unless its home life is healthy ...
No ordinary work done by a man is either as hard or as responsible as the work of a woman who is bringing up a family of small children; for upon her time and strength demands are made not only every hour of the day but often every hour of the night ...
The woman who is a good wife, a good mother, is entitled to our respect as is no one else ...


What powerful words spoken by our president. Wouldn't it be nice to hear these same sentiments from our current president? Or any president in years passed for that matter.

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