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Self-described conservatives and Republicans, do you know who spoke this quote?

"We stand for a living wage. Wages are subnormal if they fail to provide a living for those who devote their time and energy to industrial occupations. The monetary equivalent of a living wage varies according to local conditions, but must include enough to secure the elements of a normal standard of living--a standard high enough to make morality possible, to provide for education and recreation, to care for immature members of the family, to maintain the family during periods of sickness, and to permit of reasonable saving for old age." "It is abnormal for any industry to throw back upon the community the human wreckage due to its wear and tear, and the hazzards of sickness, accident, invalidism, involuntary unemployment, and old age should be provided for through insurance. This should be made a charge in whole or in part upon the industries the employer, the employee, and perhaps the people at large, to contribute severally in some degree. Wherever such standards are not met by given establishments, by given industries, are unprovided for by a legislature, or are balked by unenlightened courts, the workers are in jeopardy, the progressive employer is penalized, and the community pays a heavy cost in lessened efficiency and in misery. What Germany has done in the way of old age pensions or insurance should be studied by us, and the system adapted to our uses, with whatever modifications are rendered necessary by our different ways of life and habits of thought." Comrade Obama, you say? Think again. http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/mp3s/2000/2682/cusb-cyl2682d.mp3 http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=613

Public Comments

1. I'm so glad you posted this - there is a long standing misconceiption that TR was a conservative. He wasn't . It's extremely important as the Conservative movement redefines American politics for the next generation that we be clear on who the leaders were and were not, are and are not. 2102 is not as far away as it seems, and separating fact from fiction is crucial at this point. Thanks for an enlightening post. I think many people of many political persuasions will be surprised to learn that there are a lot of revisions of history, the notion of Teddy being a conservative is just one of many.
2. Self described Republican-Moderate. T.R. or Teddy Roosevelt was also the leader of the Progressive Party, and the Republican Party. and the Position of the Liberal/Progressive has drifted in the Right to Left Political spectrum many times thru history. Theodore D. Roosevelt[2] (IPA: /ˈroʊzəvɛlt/;[3] October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919), also known as T.R., and to the public (but never to friends and intimates) as Teddy, was the 26th President of the United States. A leader of the Republican Party and of the Progressive Party, I don't think Obama is a Commie, He is a Marxist