Theodore Roosevelt Quotes - Page 24

• I never keep boys waiting. It's a hard trial for a boy to wait.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Boys, Waiting, President

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.24, Taylor Trade Publications

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• The great lawyer who employs his talent and his learning in the highly emunerative task of enabling a very wealthy client to override or circumvent the law is doing all that in him lies to encourage the growth in the country of a spirit of dumb anger against all laws and of disbelief in their efficacy.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Courage, Lying

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• There never has been devised, and there never will be devised, any law which will enable a man to succeed save by the exercise of those qualities which have always been the prerequisites of success - the qualities of hard work, of keen intelligence, of unflinching will.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Hard Work, Exercise, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (2016). “Theodore Roosevelt's Words of Wit and Wisdom”, p.69, Chartwell

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• In the Western Hemisphere the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may force the United States, however reluctantly, in flagrant cases of such wrong doing or impotence, to the exercise of an international police power.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Exercise, Power, Police

  Annual Message to Congress, 6 Dec. 1904. Known as the "Roosevelt Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine

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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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• I think we are warranted in contending that a society thus constituted, and which may be rendered so admirable an engine of improvement, far from meriting reproach, deserves highly of the community.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Thinking, Community, May

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• I violate no secret when I say that one of the greatest values in Masonry is that it affords an opportunity for men of all walks of life to meet on common ground where all men are equal and have one common interest.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Opportunity, Men, Secret

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• The greatest historian should also be a great moralist. It is no proof of impartiality to treat wickedness and goodness on the same level.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  History, Wickedness, Levels

  Theodore Roosevelt (2006). “History as Literature and Other Essays”, p.19, Cosimo, Inc.

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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.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  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.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  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.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Home, Men

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

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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.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  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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• With self-discipline, all things are possible

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Self, Discipline, Formal Education

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

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Government, Corruption, Ownership

  Theodore Roosevelt (1952). “1907-1907”

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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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• 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 do not admire a man of timid peace.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Admire

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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.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Cutting, Exercise, Men

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

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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.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Children, Father, Opportunity

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

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Good Man, Quality

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• Hardness of heart is a dreadful quality, but it is doubtful whether in the long run it works more damage than softness of head.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Running, Heart, Long

  Theodore Roosevelt (1904). “Addresses and Presidential Messages of Theodore Roosevelt, 1902-1904”

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• I must be wanting to be President. Every young man does. But I won't let myself think of it; I must not, because if I do, I will begin to work for it; I'll be careful, calculating, cautious in word and act, and so - I'll beat myself.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Thinking, President

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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 shirk neither. We have become a great nation, forced by the fact of its greatness into relations with other nations of the earth, and we must behave as beseems a people with such responsibilities.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Responsibility, Greatness, People

  Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge (2017). “The Complete Works of Theodore Roosevelt”, p.3188, Madison & Adams Press

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• Never, never, you must never either of you remind a man at work on a political job that he may be President.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Jobs, Men, Political

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