Theodore Roosevelt Quotes - Page 26

• Don't spread patriotism too thin.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Military, Spread

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

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• I want to see you shoot the way you shout.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Soldier, Want, Way

  Speech at the meeting of the Mayor's Committee on National Defense, Madison Square, October, 1917.

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• There are two kinds of success. One is the rare kind that comes to the person who has the power to do what no one else has the power to do. That is genius. But the average person who wins what we call success is not a genius. That person is a man or woman who has merely the ordinary qualities that they share with their fellows, but has developed those ordinary qualities to a more than ordinary degree.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Success, Perseverance, Men

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• I feel most emphatically that we should not turn into shingles a tree which was old when the first Egyptian conqueror penetrated to the valley of the Euphrates.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Tree, Valleys, Firsts

  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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• After the war, and until the day of his death, his position on almost every public question was either mischievous or ridiculous, and usually both.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Death, War, Ridiculous

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

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• Yes, my friend, and if you will steal for me then you will steal from me.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Stealing, My Friends, Ifs

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

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• Don't hit at all if you can help it; don't hit a man if you can possibly avoid it; but if you do hit him, put him to sleep.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Sleep, Men, President

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.53, Taylor Trade Publications

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• To divide along the lines of section or caste or creed is un-American.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Equality, Racism, Lines

  Theodore Roosevelt (2001). “The Selected Letters of Theodore Roosevelt”, Cooper Square Pub

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• We must remember not to judge any public servant by any one act, and especially should we beware of attacking the men who are merely the occasions and not the cause of disaster.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Judging, Causes

  Theodore Roosevelt (1901). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”

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• To discriminate against a thoroughly upright citizen because he belongs to some particular church, or because, like Abraham Lincoln, he has not avowed his allegiance to any church, is an outrage against the liberty of conscience, which is one of the foundations of American life.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Presidential, Church, Liberty

  Theodore Roosevelt (1908). “Americanism in Religion”

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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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• Love of peace is common among weak, short-sighted, timid, and lazy persons; and on the other hand courage is found among many men of evil temper and bad character. Neither quality shall by itself avail. Justice among the nations of mankind, and the uplifting of humanity, can be brought about only by those strong and daring men who with wisdom love peace, but who love righteousness more than peace.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Love, Uplifting, Strong

  Theodore Roosevelt (2013). “Bully!”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• All privileges based on wealth, and all emnity to honest men merely because they are wealthy, are un-American.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, America, Privilege

  Theodore Roosevelt, Eugene Thwing (1919). “Newer Roosevelt messages: speeches, letters and magazine articles dealing with the war, before and after, and other vital topics”

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• My position as regards the monied interests can be put in a few words. In every civilized society property rights must be carefully safeguarded; ordinarily and in the great majority of cases, human rights and property rights are fundamentally and in the long run, identical; but when it clearly appears that there is a real conflict between them, human rights must have the upper hand; for property belongs to man and not man to property.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Running, Real, Men

  Address at the Sorbonne, Paris, 23 Apr. 1910

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• A man must first care for his own household before he can be of use to the state. But no matter how well he cares for his household, he is not a good citizen unless he also takes thought of the state. In the same way, a great nation must think of its own internal affairs; and yet it cannot substantiate its claim to be a great nation unless it also thinks of its position in the world at large.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Thinking, Citizens

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• We cannot afford merely to sit down and deplore the evils of city life as inevitable, when cities are constantly growing, both absolutely and relatively. We must set ourselves vigorously about the task of improving them; and this task is now well begun.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Cities, Evil, Tasks

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

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• The plea of good intentions is not one that can be allowed to have much weight in passing historical judgment upon a man whose wrong-headedness and distorted way of looking at things produced, or helped to produce, such incalculable evil; there is a wide political applicability in the remark attributed to a famous Texan, to the effect that he might, in the end, pardon a man who shot him on purpose, but that he would surely never forgive one who did so accidentally.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Evil, Political

  Theodore Roosevelt (1899). “Thomas H. Benton”

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• Of all the officers of the Government, those of the Department of Justice should be kept most free from any suspicion of improper action on partisan or factional grounds, so that there shall be gradually a growth, even though a slow growth, in the knowledge that the Federal courts and the representatives of the Federal Department of Justice insist on meting out even-handed justice to all.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Government, Justice, Growth

  Theodore Roosevelt (1951). “1903-1905”

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• The one being abhorrent to the powers above the earth and under them is the hyphenated American

  Theodore Roosevelt

  America, Abhorrent, Earth

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

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• A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless; forests which are so used that they cannot renew themselves will soon vanish, and with them all their benefits. A true forest is not merely a storehouse full of wood, but, as it were, a factory of wood and at the same time a reservoir of water. When you help to preserve our forests or plant new ones you are acting the part of good citizens.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Children, People

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• I hate a man who skins the land.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Hate, Men, Land

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• We want the active and zealous help of every man far-sighted enough to realize the importance from the standpoint of the nation's welfare in the future of preserving the forests.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Zealous, Want

  Theodore Roosevelt (1970). “Presidential Addresses and State Papers of Theodore Roosevelt ...: With Portrait Frontispiece ...”

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• It pays no matter what comes after it, to try and do things, to accomplish things in this life and not merely to have a soft and pleasant time.

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  Trying, Pay, Matter

  Theodore Roosevelt (1951). “The years of preparation, 1868-1900”

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• If I have erred, I err in company with Abraham Lincoln.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Abraham, Company, Ifs

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• It is well indeed for out land that we of this generation have learned to think nationally.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Thinking, Land, History

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