Theodore Roosevelt Quotes About Equality

Quotes about: Equality

• I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Patriotic, Equality, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.39, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• No man is above the law, and no man is below it.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Respect, Freedom, Equality

  Third Annual Message to Congress, 7 Dec. 1903. "No one is above the law" appears in the U.S. Supreme Court case Mississippi v. Johnson (1867) (arguments of counsel). Even earlier, "no officer ... is above the law" is found in a Kentucky Supreme Court case, Johnston v. Commonwealth (1809).

• 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

• To divide along the lines of section or caste or creed is un-American.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Equality, Racism, Lines

  Theodore Roosevelt (2001). “The Selected Letters of Theodore Roosevelt”, Cooper Square Pub

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