Theodore Roosevelt Quotes - Page 26

• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• All that the law can do is to shape things so that no injustice shall be done by one to the other, and that each man shall be given the first chance to show the stuff that is in him.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Law, Done

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.45, Taylor Trade Publications

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• It may be that at some time in the dim future of the race the need for war will vanish: but that time is yet ages distant. As yet no nation can hold its place in the world, or can do any work really worth doing, unless it stands ready to guard its right with an armed hand.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  War, Race, Hands

  Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “Works”

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• You, the sons of the pioneers, if you are true to your ancestry, must make your lives as worthy as they made theirs. They sought for true success, and therefore they did not seek ease. They knew that success comes only to those who lead the life of endeavor

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Son, Pioneers, Ease

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.130, Courier Corporation

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• Life is as if you were traveling a ridge crest. You have the gulf of inefficiency on one side and the gulf of wickedness on the other, and it helps not to have avoided one gulf if you fall into the other.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Fall, Wickedness, Sides

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.7, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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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.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Trying, Pay, Matter

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

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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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• When we control business in the public interest we are also bound to encourage it in the public interest or it will be a bad thing for everybody and worst of all for those on whose behalf the control is nominally exercised.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Business, Worst, Interest

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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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• The performance of duty, and not an indulgence in vapid ease and vapid pleasure, is all that makes life worth while.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Vapid, Ease, Pleasure

  Theodore Roosevelt (2013). “Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

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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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• I hate a man who skins the land.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Hate, Men, Land

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• I have already lived and enjoyed as much life as any nine other men I have known.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Nine, Enjoyed

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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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• A revolution is sometimes necessary, but if revolutions become habitual the country in which they take place is going down-hill

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Revolution, Sometimes

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.65, Courier Corporation

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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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• There is no reason why people should not call themselves Cubists, or Octagonists, or Parallelopipedonists, orKnights oftheIsoscelesTriangle, or Brothers of the Cosine, if they so desire; as expressing anything serious and permanent, one term is as fatuous as another.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Brother, People, Desire

  1913 His opinion on the International Exhibition of Modern Art in NewYork, popularly known asTheArmoury Show.'A Layman's Views of an Art Exhibition', inThe Outlook (9 Mar).

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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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