Theodore Roosevelt Quotes - Page 15

• If a man continually blusters, if he lacks civility, a big stick will not save him from trouble, and neither will speaking softly avail, if back of the softness there does not lie strength, power.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Lying, Men, Doe

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.133, Courier Corporation

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• I highly venerate the Masonic Institution, under the fullest persuasion that, when its principles are acknowledged and its laws and precepts obeyed, it comes nearest to the Christian religion, in its moral effects and influence, of any institution with which I am acquainted.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Christian, Law, Principles

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• I wish that all Americans would realize that American politics is world politics.

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  Wish, World, Realizing

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• No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Life, Men, Evil

  In Works, Memorial edition (1925) vol. 15, p. 388 "Latitude and Longitude among Reformers"

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• The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

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  Wisdom, Failure, Winning

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.13, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

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  Patriotic, Equality, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.39, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• It is an incalculable added pleasure to any one's sum of happiness if he or she grows to know, even slightly and imperfectly, how to read and enjoy the wonder-book of nature.

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  Book, Presidential, Wonder

  Theodore Roosevelt (1990). “Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter”, p.339, Stackpole Books

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• We face the future with our past and our present as guarantors of our promises; and we are content to stand or to fall by the record which we have made and are making.

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  Fall, Past, Promise

  Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “Works: Presidential addresses and state papers, Dec. 3, 1901, June 1910, and European addresses. 8 v”

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• There are good men and bad men of all nationalities, creeds and colors; and if this world of ours is ever to become what we hope some day it may become, it must be by the general recognition that the man's heart and soul, the man's worth and actions, determine his standing.

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  Heart, Men, Color

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.21, Taylor Trade Publications

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• I wish to say seriously to all the daily newspapers, to the Republicans, the Democrat, and Socialist parties, that they cannot, month in month out and year in and year out, make the kind of untruthful, of bitter assault that they have made and not expect that brutal, violent natures, or brutal and violent characters, especially when the brutality is accompanied by a not very strong mind; they cannot expect that such natures will be unaffected by it.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Strong, Character, Media

  "'It Takes More Than That to Kill a Bull Moose': The Leader and The Cause". Theodore Roosevelt's address at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, given a few minutes after getting shot by some anarchist, www.businessinsider.com. October 14, 1912.

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• I do. That is character!

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Character

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• In doing your work in the great world, it is a safe plan to follow a rule I once heard on the football field: Don't flinch, don't fall; hit the line hard.

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  Football, Fall, World

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• Over-sentimentality, over-softness, in fact washiness and mushiness are the great dangers of this age and of this people. Unless we keep the barbarian virtues, gaining the civilized ones will be of little avail.

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  People, Age, Facts

  Theodore Roosevelt (2004). “Letters and Speeches”

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• Wild beasts and birds are by right not the property merely of the people today, but the property of the unborn generations, whose belongings we have no right to squander.

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  People, Bird, Generations

  Theodore Roosevelt (2014). “Forgotten Tales and Vanished Trails”, p.239, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• In order to succeed we need leaders of inspired idealism, leaders to whom are granted great visions, who dream greatly and strive to make their dreams come true; who can kindle the people with the fire from their own burning souls. The leader for the time being, whoever he may be, is but an instrument, to be used until broken and then to be cast aside; and if he is worth his salt he will care no more when he is broken than a soldier cares when he is sent where his life is forfeit in order that the victory may be won.

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  Dream, Order, Fire

  Theodore Roosevelt (1913). “Progressive Principles: Selections from Addresses Made During the Presidential Campaign of 1912”

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• No man is above the law, and no man is below it.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Respect, Freedom, Equality

  Third Annual Message to Congress, 7 Dec. 1903. "No one is above the law" appears in the U.S. Supreme Court case Mississippi v. Johnson (1867) (arguments of counsel). Even earlier, "no officer ... is above the law" is found in a Kentucky Supreme Court case, Johnston v. Commonwealth (1809).

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• Argument weak; speak loudly!

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  Law, Argument, Speak

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• We have become great because of the lavish use of our resources ... But the time has come to inquire seriously what will happen when our forests are gone, when the coal, the iron, the oil and the gas are exhausted.

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  Nature, Iron, Oil

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.73, Cornell University Press

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• We shall make mistakes; and if we let these mistakes frighten us from our work we shall show ourselves weaklings.

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  Mistake, Making Mistakes, Shows

  Theodore Roosevelt (2009). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.136, Courier Corporation

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• The longer I live the more I think of the quality of fortitude... men who fall, pick themselves up and stumble on, fall again, and are trying to get back up when they die.

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  Fall, Men, Thinking

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• Constructive change offers the best method for avoiding destructive change.

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  Method, Avoiding, Constructive

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• Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck, and to look upward to the celestial crown above them.... If they gradually grow to feel that the whole world is nothing but muck their power of usefulness is gone.

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  Men, Looks, Gone

  The Man with the Muck-rake, delivered 14 April 1906

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• With self-discipline most anything is possible.

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  Inspirational, Wisdom, Self

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.4, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

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  Peace, War, Kind

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.39, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Missing You, Distance, World Suffering

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