Theodore Roosevelt Quotes - Page 4

• The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.

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  Real, Party, Issues

  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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• A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.

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  Real, Patriotic, Issues

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• The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.

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  Fitness, Running, Fighting

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• The mother is the one supreme asset of national life; she is more important by far than the successful statesman, or business man, or artist, or scientist.

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  Mother, Successful, Artist

  Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “Works: Presidential addresses and state papers, Dec. 3, 1901, June 1910, and European addresses. 8 v”

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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.

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  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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• Every child has inside him an aching void for excitement and if we don't fill it with something which is exciting and interesting and good for him, he will fill it with something which is exciting and interesting and which isn't good for him.

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  Children, Interesting, Void

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• Let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.

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  Running, Work Ethic, Risk

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.51, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• With great victory comes great sacrifice.

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  Sacrifice, Victory, Great Victory

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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.

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  Graduation, Senior, Education

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

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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!

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  Military, War, Mean

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• You cannot create prosperity by law. Sustained thrift, industry, application, intelligence, are the only things that ever do, or ever will, create prosperity. But you can very easily destroy prosperity by law.

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  Law, Prosperity, Application

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• We have room in this country for but one flag, the Stars and Stripes!

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Stars, Military

  Theodore Roosevelt (1925). “The foes of our own household; The great adventure; Letters to his children”

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• If an American is to amount to anything he must rely upon himself, and not upon the State; he must take pride in his own work, instead of sitting idle to envy the luck of others. He must face life with resolute courage, win victory if he can, and accept defeat if he must, without seeking to place on his fellow man a responsibility which is not theirs.

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  Responsibility, Pride, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.115, Taylor Trade Publications

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• The good citizen will demand liberty for himself, and as a matter of pride he will see to it that others receive the liberty which he thus claims as his own. Probably the best test of true love of liberty in any country is the way in which minorities are treated in that country. Not only should there be complete liberty in matters of religion and opinion, but complete liberty for each man to lead his life as he desires, provided only that in so doing he does not wrong his neighbor.

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  Wisdom, Country, Pride

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

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• If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.

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  History, Choices, Given

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• I believe that the next half century will determine if we will advance the cause of Christian civilization or revert to the horrors of brutal paganism.

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  Bible, God, Christian

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• Society has no business to permit degenerates to reproduce their kind

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  Eugenics, Ebola, Degenerates

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• Believe you can do it and you are halfway there

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  Believe, Halfway There, Can Do

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.4, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• A churchless community, a community where men have abandoned and scoffed at or ignored their religious needs, is a community on the rapid downgrade.

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  Christian, Religious, Men

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• Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

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  Inspirational, Patriotic, Thoughtful

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.28, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

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  Character, Gun, Political

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

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• The Constitution guarantees protection to property, and we must make that promise good. But it does not give the right of suffrage to any corporation. It is necessary that laws should be passed to prohibit the use of corporate funds directly or indirectly for political purposes; it is still more necessary that such laws should be thoroughly enforced.

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  Law, Giving, Political

  Theodore Roosevelt (2004). “Letters and Speeches”

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• There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100% Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else

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  Country, Fifty, Rooms

  Speech in Saratoga, 19 July 1918, in Roosevelt Policy (1919) vol. 3, p. 1079

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• If we lose the virile, manly qualities, and sink into a nation of mere hucksters, putting gain over national honor, and subordinating everything to mere ease of life, then we shall indeed reach a condition worse than that of the ancient civilizations in the years of their decay.

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  Years, Civilization, Honor

  Theodore Roosevelt (1897). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt: American ideals, with a biographical sketch by F. V. Greene. Administration”

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• There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and then shame upon him who will not stretch out the helping hand to his brother.

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  Brother, Inspiration, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.44, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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