Theodore Roosevelt Praising Motherhood
Grand Old Partisan celebrates more than seventeen decades of Republican heroes and heroics. Today, I appreciate Republican reverence for the family. March 13th 1905, Theodore Roosevelt delivered a speech to the National Congress of Mothers. This organization focused on improving education, health and safety for children and youth. Four hundred delegates gathered at a Washington, DC hotel ballroom to hear the President say: "On the whole, I think the duty of the woman the more important, the more difficult, and the more honorable of the two; on the whole I respect the woman who does her duty even more than I respect the man who does his. No ordinary work done by a man is either as hard or as responsible as the work of a woman who is bringing up a family of small children; for upon her time and strength demands are made not only every hour of the day but often every hour of the night." "I believe in the woman kee...