Theodore Roosevelt Quotes About Home

Quotes about: Home

• To sit home, read one's favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men's doing.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Home, Men, Evil

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.77, Cornell University Press

• It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Life, Happiness, Running

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.119, Cornell University Press

• The supreme duty of the Nation is the conservation of human resources through an enlightened measure of social and industrial justice. We pledge ourselves to work unceasingly in State and Nation for ... the protection of home life against the hazards of sickness, irregular employment and old age through the adoption of a system of social insurance adapted to American use.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Home, Justice, Adoption

• We have a right to expect that the best trained, the best educated men on the Pacific slope, the Rocky Mountains, and great plains States will take the lead in the preservation and right use of forests, in securing the right use of waters, and in seeing that our land policy is not twisted from its original purpose, but is perpetuated by amendment, by change when such change is necessary in the life of that purpose, the purpose being to turn the public domain into farms each to be the property of the man who actually tills it and makes his home in it.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Home, Men, Land

• Some reformers may urge that in the ages distant future, patriotism, like the habit of monogamous marriage, will become a needless and obsolete virtue; but just at present the man who loves other countries as much as he does his own is quite as noxious a member of society as the man who loves other women as much as he loves his wife. Love of country is an elemental virtue, like love of home.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Home, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (1897). “American ideals and other essays, social and political”

• The country's honor must be upheld at home and abroad.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Home, Honor

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