Theodore Roosevelt Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• 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.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Wisdom, Country, Pride

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

• Personally I have never been able to understand why the head of a big business, whether it be the Nation, the State or the Army, or Navy should not desire to have very strong and positive people under him.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Teamwork, Strong, Army

  Theodore Roosevelt (1951). “1898-1903”

• Let individuals contribute as they desire; but let us prohibit in effective fashion all corporations from making contributions for any political purpose, directly or indirectly.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Fashion, Political, Desire

  Sixth Annual Message to Congress, 3 Dec. 1906

• From reading of the people I admired - ranging from the soldiers of Valley Forge and Morgan's riflemen to my Southern forefathers and kinfolk - I felt a great admiration for men who were fearless and who could hold their own in the world. And I had a great desire to be like them.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  War, Reading, Men

• There is no reason why people should not call themselves Cubists, or Octagonists, or Parallelopipedonists, orKnights oftheIsoscelesTriangle, or Brothers of the Cosine, if they so desire; as expressing anything serious and permanent, one term is as fatuous as another.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Brother, People, Desire

  1913 His opinion on the International Exhibition of Modern Art in NewYork, popularly known asTheArmoury Show.'A Layman's Views of an Art Exhibition', inThe Outlook (9 Mar).

• I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life; the life of toil and effort; of labour and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes not to the man who desires mere easy peace but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph. A life of ignoble ease, a life of that peace which springs merely from lack either of desire or of power to strive after great things, is as little worthy of a nation as of an individual.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Spring, Winning, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (1904). “The Roosevelt Book: Selections from the Writings of Theodore Roosevelt”

• To every man who faces life with real desire to do his part in everything, I appeal for a study of the Bible.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Real, Men, Desire

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