standing-by-the-president

Patriotism,_ said Theodore Roosevelt, __eans to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President or any other public official save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. _ Every man,_ said President Roosevelt, __ho parrots the cry of __tand by the President_ without adding the proviso __o far as he serves the Republic_ takes an attitude as essentially unmanly as that of any Stuart royalist who championed the doctrine that the King could do no wrong. No self-respecting and intelligent free man could take such an attitude.