A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt
If you are rich and are worth your salt, you will teach your sons that though they may have leisure, it is not to be spent in idleness; for wisely used leisure merely means that those who possess it, being free from the necessity of working for their livelihood, are all the more bound to carry on some kind of non-remunerative work in science, in letters, in art, in exploration, in historical research-work of the type we most need in this country, the successful carrying out of which reflects most honor upon the nation.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901–1909)
Speech (1899-04-10), “The Strenuous Life,” Hamilton Club, Chicago
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If you are rich and are worth your salt, you will teach your sons that though they may have leisure, it is not to be spent in idleness; for wisely used leisure merely means that those who possess it, being free from the necessity of working for their livelihood, are all the more bound to carry on some kind of non-remunerative work in science, in letters, in art, in exploration, in historical research-work of the type we most need in this country, the successful carrying out of which reflects most honor upon the nation.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901–1909)
Speech (1899-04-10), “The Strenuous Life,” Hamilton Club, Chicago
More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/1…
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If you are rich and are worth your salt, you will teach your sons that though they may have leisure, it is not to be spent in idleness; for wisely used leisure merely means that those who possess it, being free from the necessity of working for their…
Dave (WIST Quotations)
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in reply to WIST Quotations • • •Nice tidy triangle, but Drummond forgot the fourth corner: the earnest.
He can reason, will reason, even dares to reason... till it costs him something. Then suddenly he "prefers not to" like cowardice is a lifestyle & silence is a virtue.
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in reply to WIST Quotations • • •fair point. There is a real "slavery to fear" that fits Drummond's last clause.
My only tweak is that not all "daring not" is fear in the same way. Some of it is calculated comfort, like risk management pretending to be prudence.
The slave is constrained by punishment while the careerist is constrained by incentives. Both limit speech but one is coerced & the other is chosen. The difference matters even if the outcome (silence) looks the same.
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