Theodore Roosevelt Quotes - Page 25

• We must treat each man on his worth and merits as a man. We must see that each is given a square deal, because he is entitled to no more and should receive no less.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Squares, Merit

  Speech at New York State Fair, Syracuse, N.Y., 7 Sept. 1903 See Theodore Roosevelt 11

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• When great nations fear to expand, shrink from expansion, it is because their greatness is coming to an end. Are we, still in the prime of our lusty youth, still at the beginning of our glorious manhood, to sit down among the outworn people, to take our place with the weak and the craven? A thousand times no!

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Greatness, People, Expansion

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

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• Our surest protection against assault from abroad has been not all our guards, gates and guns, or even our two oceans, but our essential goodness as a people. Our richest asset has been not our material wealth but our values.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Ocean, Gun, Two

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• I hold it to be our duty to see that the wage-worker, the small producer, the ordinary consumer, shall get their fair share of business prosperity. But it either is or ought to be evident to everyone that business has to prosper before anybody can get any benefit from it.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Ordinary, Benefits, Prosperity

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• A small politician, of low capacity and mean surroundings, proud to act as the servile tool of men worse than himself but also stronger and abler.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Mean, Men, Stronger

  Theodore Roosevelt (1887). “Life of Thomas Hart Benton”

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

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Average, Leader, Everyday

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• Cowardice in a race, as in an individual, is the unpardonable sin.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Race, Sin, Individual

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

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• In name we had the Declaration of Independence in 1776; but we gave the lie by our acts to the words of the Declaration of Independence until 1865; and words count for nothing except in so far as they represent acts.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Lying, Names, Independence

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

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• It [the Civil War] was a heroic struggle; and, as is inevitable with all such struggles, it had also a dark and terrible side. Very much was done of good, and much also of evil; and, as was inevitable in such a period of revolution, often the same man did both good and evil. For our great good fortune as a nation, we, the people of the United States as a whole, can now afford to forget the evil, or, at least, to remember it without bitterness, and to fix our eyes with pride only on the good that was accomplished.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  War, Struggle, Eye

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• No man can do both effective and decent work in public life unless he is a practical politician on the one hand, and a sturdy believer in Sunday-school politics on the other. He must always strive manfully for the best, and yet, like Abraham Lincoln, must often resign himself to accept the best possible.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  School, Sunday, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (1967). “Writings”

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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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• Don't limit your challenges - challenge your limits.
  Don't spread patriotism too thin.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Challenges, Limits, Spread

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

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Sunday, Serious, Attention

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

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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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• It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone, but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Goal, May, Reaching

  Theodore Roosevelt (1899). “The Rough Riders: An Autobiography”, p.592, Library of America

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• I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Perfect, Deeds, Horror

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.137, Taylor Trade Publications

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• I would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I have acted as I ought not to.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Heart, Men, Knowing

  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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• Conservation means development as much as it does protection.
  A man's usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals insofar as he can.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Mean, Men, History

  Theodore Roosevelt, Leo Edward Miller (1955). “Theodore Roosevelt's America: selections from the writings of the Oyster Bay naturalist”

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• If elected, I shall see to it that every man has a square deal, no less and no more.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Squares, Presidential

  Theodore Roosevelt (1954). “The days of Armageddon, 1900-1914”

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• Give the brethren a chance to do something, anything, no matter how small or unimportant. A brother convinced that he is helpful is enthusiastic.

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  Brother, Giving, Matter

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• I ask of each Mason, of each member, of each brother, that he shall remember ever that there is upon him a peculiar obligation to show himself in every respect a good citizen; for after all, the way he can best do his duty by the ancient order to which he belongs is by reflecting credit upon that order by way in which he performs his duty as a citizen of the United States.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Brother, Order, United States

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• The object of government is the welfare of the people. The material progress and prosperity of a nation are desirable chiefly so far as they lead to the moral and material welfare of all good citizens.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Government, People, Progress

  Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “The New Nationalism”, Best Books on

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• From the very beginning our people have markedly combined practical capacity for affairs with power of devotion to an ideal. The lack of either quality would have rendered the other of small value.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  People, Quality, Affair

  Theodore Roosevelt (1970). “Presidential Addresses and State Papers of Theodore Roosevelt”

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