Theodore Roosevelt Quotes - Page 3

• Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Leadership, Presidential, Sticks

  Letter to Henry L. Sprague, 26 Jan. 1900

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• It is necessary for the welfare of the nation that men's lives be based on the principles of the Bible. No man, educated or uneducated, can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Bible, Patriotic, Men

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• There should be at least ten times the number of rifles in the country as there are now.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Gun, Numbers

  Theodore Roosevelt (1923). “Theodore Roosevelt on race, riots, Reds, crime”

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• A soft, easy life is not worth living, if it impairs the fibre of brain and heart and muscle. We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage... For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Running, Heart, Sacrifice

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

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• These international bankers and Rockefeller Standard Oil interests control the majority of newspapers and the columns of these papers to club into submission or drive out of public office officials who refuse to do the bidding of the powerful corrupt cliques which compose the invisible government.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Powerful, Government, Oil

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• Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Second Amendment, Speak, Deals

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.78, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Profanity is the parlance of the fool. Why curse when there is such a magnificent language with which to discourse?

  Theodore Roosevelt

  War, Fool, Language

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• Life brings sorrows and joys alike. It is what a man does with them - not what they do to him - that is the true test of his mettle.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  War, Men, Joy

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• It is the people, and not the judges, who are entitled to say what their constitution means, for the constitution is theirs, it belongs to them and not to their servants in office—any other theory is incompatible with the foundation principles of our government.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Mean, Government, People

  William L. Ransom, Theodore Roosevelt (2007). “Majority Rule and the Judiciary: An Examination of Current Proposals for Constitutional Change Affecting the Relation of Courts to Legislation”, p.6, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• Get action. Do things; be sane; don't fritter away your time; create, act, take a place wherever you are and be somebody; get action.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Action, Sane, Wherever You Are

  Theodore Roosevelt, Eugene Thwing (1919). “The life and meaning of Theodore Roosevelt”

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• Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "A Square Deal". Theodore Roosevelt's speech to farmers at the New York State Agricultural Association in Syracuse, New York, September 7, 1903.

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• The great body of our citizens shoot less as times goes on. We should encourage rifle practice among schoolboys, and indeed among all classes, as well as in the military services by every means in our power. Thus, and not otherwise, may we be able to assist in preserving peace in the world... The first step – in the direction of preparation to avert war if possible, and to be fit for war if it should come – is to teach men to shoot!

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Military, War, Mean

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• With great victory comes great sacrifice.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Sacrifice, Victory, Great Victory

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• A nation that still needs to distinguish between stealing an election, and stealing a new pair of shoes, is not completely civilized yet.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Shoes, Needs, Pairs

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• No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Leadership, Men, Risk

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.78, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• No greater wrong can ever be done than to put a good man at the mercy of a bad, while telling him not to defend himself or his fellows; in no way can the success of evil be made surer or quicker.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Evil, Good Man

  Theodore Roosevelt (1894). “From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 - - v. 2. From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783”, U of Nebraska Press

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• A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Graduation, Senior, Education

  "Art of Communicating Ideas". Book by William Joseph Grace, p. 389, 1952.

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• No man who is not willing to bear arms and to fight for his rights can give a good reason why he should be entitled to the privilege of living in a free community.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Fighting, Men, Rights

  Theodore Roosevelt (2005). “Fear God and Take Your Own Part”, p.405, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Show me a man who makes no mistakes, and I will show you a man who doesn't do things.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Mistake, Men, Show Me

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• The one absolute certain way to bring this nation to ruin ... would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Equality, Would Be, Way

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• Make preparations in advance ... you never have trouble if you are prepared for it.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Preparation, Survival, Trouble

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• It is always better to be an original than an imitation.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Originality, Imitation, Originals

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.20, Taylor Trade Publications

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• In the long run, the most unpleasant truth is a safer companion than a pleasant falsehood.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Running, Long, Truth Is

  Theodore Roosevelt (2016). “Theodore Roosevelt's Words of Wit and Wisdom”, p.16, Chartwell

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• Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Justice, Found, Findings

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.54, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Men, Wife

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.91, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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