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____________. Americans should organize politically

as Americans and not as bankers, or lawyers, or

farmers, or wage-workers. (September 12, 1918.)

Roosevelt in the Kansas City Star, 215.

AMERICANS IN POLITICS. See also POLITICAL

ASSOCIATES.

AMUSEMENTS. The average individual will not

spend the hours in which he is not working in doing

something that is unpleasant, and absolutely the only

way permanently to draw average men or women from

occupations and amusements that are unhealthy for soul

or body is to furnish an alternative which they will

accept. To forbid all amusements, or to treat innocent

and vicious amusements as on the same plane, simply

insures recruits for the vicious amusements. (Century,

October 1900.) Mem. Ed. XV, 428; Nat. Ed. XIII, 375.

ANARCHY. Anarchy is always and everywhere the

handmaiden of Tyranny and Liberty’s deadliest foe. No

people can permanently remain free unless it possesses

the stern self-control and resolution necessary to put

down anarchy. Order without liberty and liberty without

order are equally destructive. (1918.) Mem. Ed. XXI,

377; Nat. Ed. XIX, 342.

ANARCHY. See also LIBERTY; ORDER; REVOLUTION;

VIOLENCE.

ANDRE, JOHN, AND NATHAN HALE. Poor

André! His tragedy was like that of Nathan Hale; and

the tragedy was the same in the case of the brilliant

young patrician, brilliant, fearless, devoted, and the

plain, straightforward yeoman who just as bravely gave

up his life in performing the same kind of duty. It was

not a pleasant kind of duty; and the penalty was rightly

the same in each case; and the countrymen of each man

are also right to hold him in honor and to commemorate

his memory by a monument. (To Sir George Otto

Trevelyan, January 1, 1908.) Mem. Ed. XXIV, 198;

Bishop II, 169.

ANARCHISTS. The anarchist, and especially the

anarchist in the United States, is merely one type of

criminal, more dangerous than any other because he

represents the same depravity in a greater degree. The

man who advocates anarchy directly or indirectly, in

any shape or fashion, or the man who apologizes for

anarchists and their deeds, makes himself morally

accessory to murder before the fact. The anarchist is a

criminal whose perverted instincts lead him to prefer

confusion and chaos to the most beneficent form of

social order. His protest of concern for working men is

outrageous in its impudent falsity; for if the political

institutions of this country do not afford opportunity to

every honest and intelligent son of toil, then the door of

hope is forever closed against him. The anarchist is

everywhere not merely the enemy of system and of

progress, but the deadly foe of liberty. If ever anarchy is

triumphant, its triumph will last for but one red

moment, to be succeeded for ages by the gloomy night

of despotism. (First Annual Message, Washington,

December 3, 1901.) Mem. Ed. XVII, 97; Nat. Ed. XV,

ANGLOMANIA AND ANGLOPHOBIA. I am sure

you will agree with me that in our political life, very

unlike what is the case in our social life, the temptation

is toward Anglophobia, not toward Anglomania. . . . If

an Anglomaniac in social life goes into political life he

usually becomes politically an Anglophobiac, and the

occasional political Anglophobiac whose curious

ambition it is to associate socially with 'vacuity

trimmed with lace' is equally sure to become an

Anglomaniac in his new surroundings. (To Finley Peter

Dunne, November 1904.) Mem. Ed. XXIII, 400; Bishop

ANARCHISTS—TREATMENT OF. I treated

anarchists and the bomb-throwing and dynamiting

gentry precisely as I treated other criminals. Murder is

murder. It is not rendered one whit better by the

allegation that it is committed on behalf of "a cause." It

is true that law and order are not all-sufficient; but they

are essential; lawlessness and murderous violence must

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