Theodore Roosevelt Quotes - Page 24

• Silent strength is the quality of all good men and most mummies.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Good Man, Quality

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• The hardest lessons to learn are those that are the most obvious.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Lessons, Obvious, Hardest

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• Oh, if only I could be President and Congress, too, just for ten minutes.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  President, Minutes, Congress

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• There is nothing more practical than the preservation of beauty, than the preservation of anything that appeals to the higher emotions of mankind

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Emotion, Preservation, Appeals

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.196, Cornell University Press

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• Want More Advice Like This?

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Presidential, Advice, Want

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• War with evil; but show no spirit of malignity toward the man who may be responsible for the evil. Put it out of his power to do wrong.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  War, Men, Evil

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.47, Taylor Trade Publications

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• Every Man owes some of his time to the upbuilding of the profession to which he belongs.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Profession, Every Man

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• I enter a most earnest plea that in our hurried and rather bustling life of today we do not lose the hold that our forefathers had on the Bible.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Today, Earnest, Loses

  Theodore Roosevelt (1911). “Realizable ideals: (the Earl lectures)”

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• On the whole, we think that the greatest victories are yet to be won, the greatest deeds yet to be done, and that there are yet in store for our peoples, and for the causes that we uphold, grander triumphs than have ever yet been scored. But be this as it may, we gladly agree that the one plain duty of every man is to face the future as he faces the present, regardless of what it may have in store for him, turning toward the light as he sees the light, to play his part manfully, as a man among men.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Thinking, Greatest Victory

  Theodore Roosevelt (1903). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt: American ideals and other essays, social and political”

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• We do not admire a man of timid peace.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Admire

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• Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves; and we can shrink neither.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Presidential, Given, Duty

  Theodore Roosevelt's address to the nation (March 4, 1905), as quoted in "Ten Memorable Inaugural Addresses", www.realclearpolitics.com. January 16, 2013.

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• The Cubists are entitled to the serious attention of all who find enjoyment in the colored puzzle pictures of the Sunday newspapers.

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  Sunday, Serious, Attention

  Theodore Roosevelt (2006). “History as Literature and Other Essays”, p.305, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It was a pleasure to deal with a man of high ideals, who scorned everything mean and base, and who possessed those robust and hardy qualities of body and mind, for the lack of which no merely negative virtue can ever atone.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Mean, Men, Mind

  Jacob Abbott, Flavius Vegetus Romanus, Duke of Wellington, John S. C. Abbott, Theodore Roosevelt (2016). “Strategy Six Pack 2”, p.298, Lulu.com

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• It is imperative to exercise over big business a control and supervision which is unnecessary as regards small business. All business must be conducted under the law, and all business men, big or little, must act justly. But a wicked big interest is necessarily more dangerous to the community than a wicked little interest. 'Big business' in the past has been responsible for much of the special privilege which must be unsparingly cut out of our national life.

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  Cutting, Exercise, Men

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

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• Under government ownership corruption can flourish just as rankly as under private ownership.

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  Government, Corruption, Ownership

  Theodore Roosevelt (1952). “1907-1907”

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• Much of the usefulness of any career must lie in the impress that it makes upon, and the lessons that it teaches to, the generations that come after.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Lying, Careers, Generations

  Theodore Roosevelt (1926). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt”

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• The important thing is this: that, under such government recognition as we may give to that which is beneficent and wholesome in large business organizations, we shall be most vigilant never to allow them to crystallize into a condition which shall make private initiative difficult. It is of the utmost importance that in the future we shall keep the broad path of opportunity just as open and easy for our children as it was for our fathers during the period which has been the glory of America's industrial history.

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  Children, Father, Opportunity

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• The stream will not permanently rise higher than the main source; and the main source of national power and national greatness is found in the average citizenship of the nation. Therefore it behooves us to do our best to see that the standard of the average citizen is kept high; and the average cannot be kept high unless the standard of the leaders is very much higher.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Leadership, Greatness, Average

  Citizenship in a Republic - The Man in the Arena, delivered 23 April 1910, Le Sorbonne, University of Paris

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• We can no more and no less afford to condone evil in the man of capital than evil in the man of no capital.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Evil, He Man

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

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• A leader is an average, everyday person who is highly motivated.

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  Average, Leader, Everyday

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• And it is through strife and the readiness for strife that a man or a nation must win greatness. So, let the world know that we are here and willing to pour out our blood, our treasure, our tears. And that America is ready and if need be desirous of battle

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  Winning, Greatness, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.57, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The sons of all of us will pay in the future if we of the present do not do justice in the present.

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  War, Son, Justice

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.82, Taylor Trade Publications

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• Every man among us is more fit to meet the duties and responsibilities of citizenship because of the perils over which, in the past, the nation has triumphed; because of the blood and sweat and tears, the labor and the anguish, through which, in the days that have gone, our forefathers moved on to triumph.

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  Responsibility, Past, Men

  Speech at Naval War College, Newport, R.I., June 1897 See Byron 28; Winston Churchill 9; Winston Churchill 12; Donne 4

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• The weakling and the coward are out of place in a strong and free community. In a republic like ours the governing class is composed of the strong men who take the trouble to do the work of government; and if you are too timid or too fastidious or too careless to do your part in this work, then you forfeit your right to be considered one of the governing and you become one of the governed insteadone of the driven cattle of the political arena.

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  Strong, Men, Class

  Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “Works”

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• Some reformers may urge that in the ages distant future, patriotism, like the habit of monogamous marriage, will become a needless and obsolete virtue; but just at present the man who loves other countries as much as he does his own is quite as noxious a member of society as the man who loves other women as much as he loves his wife. Love of country is an elemental virtue, like love of home.

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  Country, Home, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (1897). “American ideals and other essays, social and political”

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