Theodore Roosevelt

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Introduction
Climbing his way up from the chair of vice president in 1900, the following year he was elected as the nation’s twenty-sixth president of the United States; he is none other than Theodore Roosevelt. His speeche has spread all across the nations and his contribution is one to remember.
He achieved the position of governor of New York before for he has helped lead the Rough Riders to fame during the war of Spanish-American War in 1898. As the president, he supported progressive reforms such as greater government control over business and the conservation of nature. Mark on January the 11th 1883, Theodore Roosevelt has once again deliver a speech at Buffalo, New York entitled “The Duties of American Citizenship”.

Summary
Theodore Roosevelt speech essentially meant that the United States government is run for the people by the people itself. Unlike a dictatorship, a democracy leans heavily on the support and the participation of its citizens. The US government is run by its citizen in which places a variety of duties to be fulfilled and responsibilities to be hold up to. In his speech he urges the good young man to join the politics world in order to help build the United States to be one of the best country in the nation.
He states that those who have no time to attend to politics are simply stating that they are unfit to live in a free community. They only vote and do nothing in order to help. Theodore Roosevelt states the three duty an American should take concerning his rightful speech, the first; he shall work in politics, second; he shall do that work in a political manner, the third; it shall be done in accord with the highest principle of honor and justice. In the speech he reminds the good citizen of US to jo...

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... to take his part in the rough struggle with his fellow men for political supremacy”

Metaphor
“The voice of the people is not always the voice of God; and when it happens to be the voice of the devil, then it is a man’s clear duty to defy its behests”
Equalizing the voice of God as the best voice that anyone should hear. Voice here means that the speech, talk or ideas. The voice of devil is equal to the voice or comment or fallacy regarding certain matters.

Works Cited

“Duties of American Citizenship” by Theodore Roosevelt http://www.artofmanliness.com/duties-of-american-citizenship-by-theodore-roosevelt/ Encyclopedia.com, Human And Civil Right: Essential Primary Sources, 2006, The Duties of American Citizenship: About the Author. http://www.encyclopedia.com/article-1G2-2560000019/duties-american-citizenship.html Oxford English Advance Learner Dictionary,

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