A COINER OF APT PHRASES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 141, 10 March 1919, Page 5

A COINER OF APT PHRASES

THE LATE COLONEL ROOSEVELT. Vivid expression in .-.pt phrases characterised Colonel Roosevelt during his entire public career. His outspoken statements on every subject sometimes made friends and sometimes enemies, but always they created comment. Here a re some of his famous utterances; though the "deeliglited" and "bully" were used j on all occasions: ! "And more than that, don't you do it if you expect me to pussy-foot on any single issue Ihave raised."—To a Republican delegatp at Oyster Bay, April 5, 1916, discussing his possible nomination for the Presidency. "When I started for Africa, some, particularly in Wall Street, hoped every lion would do his duty."—Upon returning 'from his African hunting expedition. "Good-bye, I am soing down to see hW the ditch is getting along."—On sailing for Panama to inspect the canal. "Weasel words," he branded tho scheme for "universal voluntary military training," explaining 'that '"voluntary," like a weasel, sucked the strength from tho "universal." In the "Metropolitan Magazine," July, 1917. ho referred to the rwusal of tiie War Department to permit him to go abroad at the head of <v volunteer army, and the counter-proposal of Mr. Baker, in the following words: "It must come from doubtless well-meaning military men of the red-tape and pipe-elay school who are hidebound in tho pedantry of that kind of wooden militarism which is onlv one degree worse than its extreme opposite, Ihe folly which believes that an army can be improvised between sunrise an.i sunset." Divided allegiance, was a target for repeated attack. "In (his country now there is no room fur 50-50 men who are hilv German and half American."—Ovster Bay, August 10, 1917. "Any man who says he loves the counts from which he came as well as this country is no better than the man who loves another woman as well as he loves his wife."—Trinity College, June IS, 1918.

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