Theodore Roosevelt Quotes - Page 21

• The spirit of brotherhood recognizes of necessity both the need of self-help and also the need of helping others in the only way which every ultimately does great god, that is, of helping them to help themselves.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Helping Others, Self, Brotherhood

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• I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life; the life of toil and effort; of labour and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes not to the man who desires mere easy peace but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph. A life of ignoble ease, a life of that peace which springs merely from lack either of desire or of power to strive after great things, is as little worthy of a nation as of an individual.

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  Spring, Winning, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (1904). “The Roosevelt Book: Selections from the Writings of Theodore Roosevelt”

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• Perhaps there is no more important component of character than steadfast resolution.

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  Character, Important, Resolution

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.56, Courier Corporation

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• The name Roosevelt has this legendary force in our country at this time.

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  Country, Time, Names

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• Conservation and rural-life policies are really two sides of the same policy; and down at the bottom this policy rests upon the fundamental law that neither man nor nation can prosper unless, in dealing with the present, thought is steadily given for the future.

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  Men, Law, Two Sides

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

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• The immigrant must not be allowed to drift or to be put at the mercy of the exploiter. Our object is not to imitate one of the older racial types, but to maintain a new American type and then to secure loyalty to this type. We cannot secure such loyalty unless we make this a country where men shall feel that they have justice and also where they shall feel that they are required to perform the duties imposed upon them.

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  Loyalty, Country, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (2005). “Fear God and Take Your Own Part”, p.373, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.

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  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

  Theodore Roosevelt (2005). “Fear God and Take Your Own Part”, p.54, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Conservation of our resources is the fundamental question before this nation, and that our first and greatest task is to set our house in order and begin to live within our means.

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  Mean, Order, House

  Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “Presidential addresses and state papers”

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• It is character that counts in a nation as in a man.

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  Character, Men, Nations

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.102, Courier Corporation

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• Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords.

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  Sports, Fighting, History

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• There comes a time in the life of a nation, as in the life of an individual, when it must face great responsibilities, whether it will or no. We have now reached that time. We cannot avoid facing the fact that we occupy a new place among the people of the world.

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  Responsibility, People, World

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• The lives of truest heroism are those in which there are no great deeds to look back upon. It is the little things well done that go to make up a truly successful and good life.

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  Good Life, Successful, Deeds

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• We have room for but one loyalty, loyalty to the United States.

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  Loyalty, Military, United States

  1919 Message to theAmerican Defense Society two days before his death, 3 Jan.

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• The true friend of property, the true conservative, is he who insists that property shall be the servant and not the master of the commonwealth; who insists that the creature of man’s making shall be the servant and not the master of the man who made it. The citizens of the United States must effectively control the mighty commercial forces which they have called into being. There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. To put an end to it will be neither a short nor an easy task, but it can be done.

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  True Friend, Men, Political

  Theodore Roosevelt (2004). “Letters and Speeches”

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• It is by no means necessary that a great nation should always stand at the heroic level. But no nation has the root of greatness in it unless in time of need it can rise to the heroic mood.

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  Mean, Greatness, Roots

  Theodore Roosevelt (2005). “Fear God and Take Your Own Part”, p.350, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is a wicked thing to be neutral between right and wrong.

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  Wicked, Wicked Things

  Theodore Roosevelt (2005). “Fear God and Take Your Own Part”, p.26, Cosimo, Inc.

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• No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

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  Effort, Intellectual, Done

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• Alike for the nation and the individual, the one indispensable requisite is character.

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  Character, Individual, Indispensable

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.60, Cornell University Press

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• From time to time, little men will find fault with what you have done...but they will go down the stream like bubbles, they will vanish. But the work you have done will remain for the ages.

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  Men, Age, Done

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• No triumph of peace is quite so great as the supreme triumphs of war.

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  Peace, War, Triumph

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.134, Taylor Trade Publications

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• It is no limitation upon property rights or freedom of contract to require that when men receive from government the privilege of doing business under corporate form... they shall do so under absolutely truthful representations... Great corporations exist only because they were created and safeguarded by our institutions; and it is therefore our right and duty to see that they work in harmony with these institutions.

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  Business, Men, Rights

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• To have acted otherwise ... would have been the betrayal of the interests of the United States.

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  Betrayal, United States, Interest

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• There is no patent recipe for getting good citizenship. You get it by applying the old, old rules of decent conduct, the rules in accordance with which decent men have had to shape their lives from the beginning .. fundamental precepts, put forth in the Bible and embodied consciously or unconsciously in the code of morals of every great and successful nation from antiquity to modern times.

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  Successful, Men, Patents

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• What I have advocated is not wild radicalism. It is the highest and wisest kind of conservatism.

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  Radicalism, Kind, Conservatism

  Theodore Roosevelt (1912). “The Conservation of Womanhood and Childhood”, Best Books

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• The biggest corporation, like the humblest private citizen, must be held to strict compliance with the will of the people as expressed in the fundamental law.

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  Law, People, Citizens

  Theodore Roosevelt (1904). “What Roosevelt Says ...”

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