Emma Goldman gave this fiery speech in San Francisco right at the end of Roosevelt's last term. It's sort of her good riddance speech to Roosevelt's America.

In it, she asks a simple question: "What is Patriotism?" If patriotism is looking fondly back on where you grew up, then patriotism would be dead in America. Not too many people look back fondly on a childhood spent crammed like so many sardines in a tenement. No, patriotism, she concludes, is the tool in which people are convinced that they're God's gift to the world and are completely justified in fighting, killing, and dying to prove that their flag is top dog.

She calls Roosevelt out on this in particular. Roosevelt's pet navy, which he dispatched freely because he thought that America was large and in charge enough to play police in the entire west side of the globe. How much did those ships cost? How much was paid for the big parties to launch the Great White Fleet, while America's poorest citizens tried desperately to feed themselves, all so America's kids could remember fondly the launch of a fleet of killing vessels?

Emma Goldman was targeting what she viewed as the worst kind of corruption—the state itself and the value it places on martial supremacy over its own citizens' well-being.