Theodore Roosevelt Quotes About Community

Quotes about: Community

• Every person who invests in well-selected real estate in a growing section of a prosperous community adopts the surest and safest method of becoming independent, for real estate is the basis of wealth.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Real, Independent, Community

• No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Community, President

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.61, Courier Corporation

• No man can be a good citizen unless he has a wage more than sufficient to cover the bare cost of living, and hours of labor short enough so after his day's work is done he will have time and energy to bear his share in the management of the community, to help in carrying the general load.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Cost Of Living, Community

  Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge (2017). “The Complete Works of Theodore Roosevelt”, p.3157, Madison & Adams Press

• Any man who tries to excite class hatred, sectional hate, hate of creeds, any kind of hatred in our community, though he may affect to do it in the interest of the class he is addressing, is in the long run with absolute certainly that class's own worst enemy.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Life, Running, Hate

  Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “The Real Roosevelt: His Forceful and Fearless Utterances on Various Subjects”

• I believe in corporations. They are indispensable instruments of our modern civilization. But I believe they should be so regulated that they shall act for the interests of the community as a whole.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Believe, Civilization, Community

• I am a strong individualist by personal habit, inheritance, and conviction; but it is a mere matter of common sense to recognize that the State, the community, the citizens acting together, can do a number of things better than if they were left to individual action.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Strong, Numbers, Common Sense

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

• What a man does for himself, dies with him. What a man does for his community lives long after he's gone.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Long, Community

• Every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may require it.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Land, Community

  Speech, Osawatomie, Kan., 31 Aug. 1910

• In every community there are little knots of fantastic extremists who loudly proclaim that they are striving for righteousness, and who, in reality, do their feeble best for unrighteousness. Just as the upright politician should hold in peculiar scorn the man who makes the name of politician a reproach and a shame, so the genuine reformer should realize that the cause he champions is especially jeopardized by the mock reformer who does what he can to make reform a laughingstock among decent men.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Reality, Men, Names

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.22, Courier Corporation

• The weakling and the coward cannot be saved by honesty alone; but without honesty the brave and able man is merely a civic wild beast who should be hunted down by every lover of righteousness. No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Honesty, Men, Community

  "The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses" by Theodore Roosevelt. "The Eighth and Ninth Commandments in Politics", 1910.

• 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.

• It is imperative to exercise over big business a control and supervision which is unnecessary as regards small business. All business must be conducted under the law, and all business men, big or little, must act justly. But a wicked big interest is necessarily more dangerous to the community than a wicked little interest. 'Big business' in the past has been responsible for much of the special privilege which must be unsparingly cut out of our national life.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Cutting, Exercise, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (1913). “Progressive Principles: Selections from Addresses Made During the Presidential Campaign of 1912”

• Each child represents either a potential addition to the protective capacity and enlightened citizenship of the nation or, if allowed to suffer from neglect, a potential addition to the destructive forces of a community. . . . The interests of the nation are involved in the welfare of this array of children no less than in our great material affairs.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Children, Community, Suffering

• I think we are warranted in contending that a society thus constituted, and which may be rendered so admirable an engine of improvement, far from meriting reproach, deserves highly of the community.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Thinking, Community, May

• The weakling and the coward are out of place in a strong and free community. In a republic like ours the governing class is composed of the strong men who take the trouble to do the work of government; and if you are too timid or too fastidious or too careless to do your part in this work, then you forfeit your right to be considered one of the governing and you become one of the governed insteadone of the driven cattle of the political arena.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Strong, Men, Class

  Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “Works”

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

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Christian, Religious, Men

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