Dear Editor,

Bruce Golding has drawn criticism for simply saying what so many want to but can’t, or won’t say, because of fear about the unprecedented situation in the United States. I can think of no better way to pay tribute to him than the compelling words of US President Theodore Roosevelt:

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

Thank you, Bruce Golding.

Jon Ferguson

Hope Pastures,

St Andrew