Theodore Roosevelt Quotes About Independence

Quotes about: Independence

• No man can lead a public career really worth leading, no man can act with rugged independence in serious crises, nor strike at great abuses, nor afford to make powerful and unscrupulous foes, if he is himself vulnerable in his private character.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Powerful, Character, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (2013). “Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

• The words of the Declaration of Independence, as given effect by Washington...are to be accepted as real, and not as empty phrases...that in very truth this is a government by the people themselves, that the Constitution is theirs, that the courts are theirs, that all the government agents and agencies are theirs... It is for the people themselves finally to decide all questions of public policy and to have their decision made effective...We here, in America, hold in our hands the hope of the world.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Real, Agency, Government

• In name we had the Declaration of Independence in 1776; but we gave the lie by our acts to the words of the Declaration of Independence until 1865; and words count for nothing except in so far as they represent acts.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Lying, Names, Independence

  Theodore Roosevelt (1926). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt”

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