Theodore Roosevelt Quotes - Page 27

• 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.

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  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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• The decisions of the courts on economic and social questions depend on their economic and social philosophy.

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  Philosophy, Decision, Economic

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.81, Taylor Trade Publications

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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.

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  Government, People, Progress

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

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• It is a bad thing for a nation to raise and to admire a false standard of success; and there can be no falser standard than that set by the deification of material well-being in and for itself.

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  Standards, Admire, Well Being

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

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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.

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  Death, War, Ridiculous

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

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• It is, of course, the merest truism to say a party is of use only so far as it serves the nation.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Party, Use, Politics

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• We sincerely and earnestly believe in peace; but if peace and justice conflict, we scorn the man who would not stand for justice though the whole world came in arms against him.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Believe, Men, Justice

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

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

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Abraham, Company, Ifs

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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.

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  People, Quality, Affair

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

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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.

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  Men, Thinking, Citizens

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

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  Thinking, Land, History

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• It is time for us now as a nation to exercise the same reasonable foresight in dealing with our great natural resources that would be shown by any prudent man in conserving and widely using the property which contains the assurance of well-being for himself and his children.

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  Children, Exercise, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.74, Cornell University Press

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• 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.

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  Soldier, Want, Way

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

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• Much of the discussion about socialism and individualism is entirely pointless, because of failure to agree on terminology.

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  Wisdom, Politics, Individualism

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “African and European Addresses”, p.70, tredition

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• If there is one thing for which we stand in this country, it is for complete religious freedom, and it is an emphatic negation of this right to cross-examine a man on his religion before being willing to support him for office.

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  Country, Religious, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

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• Among the wise and high-minded people who in self-respecting and genuine fashion strive earnestly for peace, there are the foolish fanatics always to be found in such a movement and always discrediting it the men who form the lunatic fringe in all reform movements.

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  Wise, Fashion, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (1899). “The Rough Riders: An Autobiography”, p.461, Library of America

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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.

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  Cities, Evil, Tasks

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

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• All for each, and each for all, is a good motto; but only on condition that each works with might and main to so maintain himself as not to be a burden to others.

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  Might, Motto, Burden

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

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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.

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  Love, Uplifting, Strong

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

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• In the great battle of life, no brilliancy of intellect, no perfection of bodily development, will count when weighed in the balance against the assemblage of virtues, active and passive, of moral qualities which we group together under the name of character.

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  Character, Names, Perfection

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.69, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I am far from underestimating the importance of dividends, but I rank dividends below human character.

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  Character, Underestimate, Importance

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.130, Taylor Trade Publications

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• There are two things that I want you to make up your minds to: first, that you are going to have a good time as long as you live - I have no use for the sour-faced man - and next, that you are going to do something worthwhile, that you are going to work hard and do the things you set out to do.

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  Hard Work, Men, Two

  Theodore Roosevelt (1995). “A Bully Father: Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children”, Random House Incorporated

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• Rattlesnakes are only too plentiful everywhere; along the river bottoms, in the broken, hilly ground, and on the prairies and the great desert wastes alike...If it can it will get out of the way, and only coils up in its attitude of defence when it believes that it is actually menaced.

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  Attitude, Believe, Rivers

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• Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual flabbiness, to which those doom themselves who elect to spend all their years in that vainest of all vain pursuits-the pursuit of mere pleasure as a sufficient end in itself.

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  Years, Intellectual, Poverty

  Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “Works: The strenuous life”

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