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"The President is merely the most important among
a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to
the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his
efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service
to the nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there
should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it
is exactly as necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when
he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and
servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that
we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is
not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American
public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But
it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him
than about any one else. "
- Theodore Roosevelt, on criticizing President