Theodore Roosevelt Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• There are rainy days in autumn and stormy days in winter when the rocking chair in front of the fire simply demands an accompanying book.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Book, Autumn, Winter

• The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Real, Book, Presidential

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

• It is an incalculable added pleasure to any one's sum of happiness if he or she grows to know, even slightly and imperfectly, how to read and enjoy the wonder-book of nature.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Book, Presidential, Wonder

  Theodore Roosevelt (1990). “Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter”, p.339, Stackpole Books

• There should be relentless exposure of and attack upon every evil practice, whether in politics, in business, or in social life. I hail as a benefactor every writer or speaker, every man who, on the platform, or in book, magazine or newspaper, with merciless severity makes such attack, provided always that he in his turn remembers that the attack is of use only if it is absolutely truthful.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Book, Men, Practice

  The Man with the Muck-rake, delivered 14 April 1906

• I am rather more apt to read old books than new ones.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  War, Book, Old Books

• [Among the books he chooses, a statesman] ought to read interesting books on history and government, and books of science and philosophy; and really good books on these subjects are as enthralling as any fiction ever written in prose or verse.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Philosophy, Book, Science

  Theodore Roosevelt (2013). “Bully!”, p.257, Simon and Schuster

• Rough board shelves hold a number of books, without which some of the evenings would be long indeed.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Book, Numbers, Long

  Theodore Roosevelt (2016). “Hunting Trips of a Ranchman: Sketches of Sport on the Northern Cattle Plains”, p.15, Theodore Roosevelt

• The effort to make financial or political profit out of the destruction of character can only result in public calamity. Gross and reckless assaults on character, whether on the stump or in newspaper, magazine, or book, create a morbid and vicious public sentiment, and at the same time act as a profound deterrent to able men of normal sensitiveness and tend to prevent them from entering the public service at any price.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Book, Character, Men

  The Man with the Muck-rake, delivered 14 April 1906

• He [Lincoln] had mastered it {the Bible] absolutely...mastered it so that he became almost 'a man of one Book', who knew that Book and who instinctively put into practice what he had been taught therein.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Book, Men, Practice

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