Top 15 Kermit Roosevelt III Quotes (2024 Update)

Kermit Roosevelt III Quote: “I never wanted to safe... I wanted to be good.”

1. “I never wanted to safe... I wanted to be good.”

— Kermit Roosevelt III

Kermit Roosevelt III Quote: “We are at war, and in time of war there is only one rule. Form your battalion and fight.”

2. “We are at war, and in time of war there is only one rule. Form your battalion and fight.”

— Kermit Roosevelt III

Kermit Roosevelt III Quote: “But we do go forward. Inspired, once again, by military service and a war against a racist enemy – this time Nazi Germany – Black Americans press their calls for equality. The Supreme Court invalidates government racial segregation, in public schools and elsewhere.”

3. “But we do go forward. Inspired, once again, by military service and a war against a racist enemy – this time Nazi Germany – Black Americans press their calls for equality. The Supreme Court invalidates government racial segregation, in public schools and elsewhere.”

— Kermit Roosevelt III

Kermit Roosevelt III Quote: “And that’s maybe a better description of the experience of reading the Federalist Papers now, if you’re reading them for guidance through a modern crisis. The predictions of the Framers of the Constitution were accurate for a time, but history diverged from their path a while back.”

4. “And that’s maybe a better description of the experience of reading the Federalist Papers now, if you’re reading them for guidance through a modern crisis. The predictions of the Framers of the Constitution were accurate for a time, but history diverged from their path a while back.”

— Kermit Roosevelt III

Kermit Roosevelt III Quote: “It is a sign of how thoroughly the Reconstruction Constitution has displaced the Founders’ Constitution that these are the cases that define our constitutional order. We are not Founding America, and we are not the heirs of that first Republic, either. We are the heirs of the people who destroyed it. We are Reconstruction America.”

5. “It is a sign of how thoroughly the Reconstruction Constitution has displaced the Founders’ Constitution that these are the cases that define our constitutional order. We are not Founding America, and we are not the heirs of that first Republic, either. We are the heirs of the people who destroyed it. We are Reconstruction America.”

— Kermit Roosevelt III

Kermit Roosevelt III Quote: “The liberty to do what one wants to the limits of one’s strength – including the liberty to do as one wills with other people – is the liberty of the state of nature. No one has the right to demand obedience from anyone else, although some have the ability to compel it by force.”

6. “The liberty to do what one wants to the limits of one’s strength – including the liberty to do as one wills with other people – is the liberty of the state of nature. No one has the right to demand obedience from anyone else, although some have the ability to compel it by force.”

— Kermit Roosevelt III

Kermit Roosevelt III Quote: “One final note: in this book I say “we” a lot. No matter who you are, you will probably encounter at least one “we” to which your reaction is “not me.” And maybe that’s true. But that reaction illustrates a theme of the book, which is that the basic American struggle is over who is an insider and who an outsider – who comes within the most fundamental “we”: We the People.”

7. “One final note: in this book I say “we” a lot. No matter who you are, you will probably encounter at least one “we” to which your reaction is “not me.” And maybe that’s true. But that reaction illustrates a theme of the book, which is that the basic American struggle is over who is an insider and who an outsider – who comes within the most fundamental “we”: We the People.”

— Kermit Roosevelt III

Kermit Roosevelt III Quote: “Most Americans don’t know that military coups swept over half the country, with the acquiescence of the federal government. But that is what happened. The legitimate governments of southern states and cities were overthrown by force, by white supremacist paramilitary organizations. Black people and Republicans were disenfranchised and massacred. They call it the Redemption of the South, and what it means is we turn away from the idea of equality.”

8. “Most Americans don’t know that military coups swept over half the country, with the acquiescence of the federal government. But that is what happened. The legitimate governments of southern states and cities were overthrown by force, by white supremacist paramilitary organizations. Black people and Republicans were disenfranchised and massacred. They call it the Redemption of the South, and what it means is we turn away from the idea of equality.”

— Kermit Roosevelt III

Kermit Roosevelt III Quote: “The government, Lincoln suggests, should intervene to protect individuals from other individuals – to redress the natural consequences of inequalities of power.”

9. “The government, Lincoln suggests, should intervene to protect individuals from other individuals – to redress the natural consequences of inequalities of power.”

— Kermit Roosevelt III

Kermit Roosevelt III Quote: “But the idea that letting people know how deeply rooted racism has been will make them lose faith in America is both patronizing and implausible. Patronizing because it suggests that some Americans can’t handle the truth, and implausible because the people most likely to lose faith – Black Americans – know the problem of racism all too well already.”

10. “But the idea that letting people know how deeply rooted racism has been will make them lose faith in America is both patronizing and implausible. Patronizing because it suggests that some Americans can’t handle the truth, and implausible because the people most likely to lose faith – Black Americans – know the problem of racism all too well already.”

— Kermit Roosevelt III

Kermit Roosevelt III Quote: “That is the attitude we need today. That is the “Battle Hymn of the Republic”: the soldiers who sang that they would die to make men free.”

11. “That is the attitude we need today. That is the “Battle Hymn of the Republic”: the soldiers who sang that they would die to make men free.”

— Kermit Roosevelt III

Kermit Roosevelt III Quote: “Abolitionists, though, find no support in the political theory of the Declaration. This point is hard to accept today. But the contemporaneous understanding of the Declaration was pretty clearly that it was about national independence, not individual liberty, and certainly not the liberty of political outsiders. Even more: the Declaration can be mustered to make an argument about slavery – but it is an argument against abolition.”

12. “Abolitionists, though, find no support in the political theory of the Declaration. This point is hard to accept today. But the contemporaneous understanding of the Declaration was pretty clearly that it was about national independence, not individual liberty, and certainly not the liberty of political outsiders. Even more: the Declaration can be mustered to make an argument about slavery – but it is an argument against abolition.”

— Kermit Roosevelt III

Kermit Roosevelt III Quote: “But Lincoln says something about the future that’s pretty amazing. He says that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom. And it does. The Reconstruction Amendments – the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth – give us a new set of founding principles.”

13. “But Lincoln says something about the future that’s pretty amazing. He says that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom. And it does. The Reconstruction Amendments – the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth – give us a new set of founding principles.”

— Kermit Roosevelt III

Kermit Roosevelt III Quote: “The Revolutionaries who declare their independence overstate the injustices inflicted on them and ignore the injustices they inflict on others. The America they create fails – the Articles of Confederation are a disaster, lasting less than ten years. Americans work within them as long as they can, hoping for improvement, but in the end they have to break the existing order.”

14. “The Revolutionaries who declare their independence overstate the injustices inflicted on them and ignore the injustices they inflict on others. The America they create fails – the Articles of Confederation are a disaster, lasting less than ten years. Americans work within them as long as they can, hoping for improvement, but in the end they have to break the existing order.”

— Kermit Roosevelt III

Kermit Roosevelt III Quote: “Uncompensated emancipation suggests not that the Founders’ Constitution is being changed but that it is being repudiated – claims based on slavery are as invalid as claims based on rebel debt. Uncompensated emancipation is of course also a feature of the Emancipation Proclamation – and the Takings Clause issue is one of several reasons to think that the Emancipation Proclamation is unconstitutional under the Founders’ Constitution.”

15. “Uncompensated emancipation suggests not that the Founders’ Constitution is being changed but that it is being repudiated – claims based on slavery are as invalid as claims based on rebel debt. Uncompensated emancipation is of course also a feature of the Emancipation Proclamation – and the Takings Clause issue is one of several reasons to think that the Emancipation Proclamation is unconstitutional under the Founders’ Constitution.”

— Kermit Roosevelt III

Kermit Roosevelt III Quote: “They laugh because they’re surprised, because of course they’ve been taught the standard story about how wonderful and successful the Constitution has been. Most of them haven’t heard the phrase “a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.” It originates, remember, from William Lloyd Garrison, who urged northern secession rather than union with slaveholders and burned a copy of the Constitution. “So perish all compromises with tyranny!”

16. “They laugh because they’re surprised, because of course they’ve been taught the standard story about how wonderful and successful the Constitution has been. Most of them haven’t heard the phrase “a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.” It originates, remember, from William Lloyd Garrison, who urged northern secession rather than union with slaveholders and burned a copy of the Constitution. “So perish all compromises with tyranny!”

— Kermit Roosevelt III

Kermit Roosevelt III Quote: “Measured according to the goals set out in the preamble, the Founders’ Constitution is a worse disaster than the Articles. It does not create a more perfect union: eleven states secede, thirteen if you accept the Confederate claims to Missouri and Kentucky. It does not insure domestic tranquility: Americans kill more Americans than any foreign enemy ever has, some three-quarters of a million dead. It brings the blessings of liberty to the Founders, but to their posterity the curse of war.”

17. “Measured according to the goals set out in the preamble, the Founders’ Constitution is a worse disaster than the Articles. It does not create a more perfect union: eleven states secede, thirteen if you accept the Confederate claims to Missouri and Kentucky. It does not insure domestic tranquility: Americans kill more Americans than any foreign enemy ever has, some three-quarters of a million dead. It brings the blessings of liberty to the Founders, but to their posterity the curse of war.”

— Kermit Roosevelt III

Kermit Roosevelt III Quote: “Indeed, when people talk about how the Constitution is designed to implement the principles of the Declaration, they almost always point to the Fourteenth Amendment – sometimes without noticing that this means they are not talking about the Founders’ Constitution. In part due to Supreme Court decisions, however, the federal government ended up protecting individuals primarily from states and secondarily, if at all, from other individuals.”

18. “Indeed, when people talk about how the Constitution is designed to implement the principles of the Declaration, they almost always point to the Fourteenth Amendment – sometimes without noticing that this means they are not talking about the Founders’ Constitution. In part due to Supreme Court decisions, however, the federal government ended up protecting individuals primarily from states and secondarily, if at all, from other individuals.”

— Kermit Roosevelt III

Kermit Roosevelt III Quote: “The Founders’ Constitution is a deal. You get an American nation, but you must accept slavery. That’s a bargain with evil, a deal with the devil. And like most deals with the devil, it doesn’t work out very well.”

19. “The Founders’ Constitution is a deal. You get an American nation, but you must accept slavery. That’s a bargain with evil, a deal with the devil. And like most deals with the devil, it doesn’t work out very well.”

— Kermit Roosevelt III

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