Theodore Roosevelt Quotes About Liberalism

Quotes about: Liberalism

• 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

• We can just as little afford to follow the doctrinaires of an extreme individualism as the doctrinaires of an extreme socialism.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Wisdom, Politics, Littles

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

• Much of the discussion about socialism and individualism is entirely pointless, because of failure to agree on terminology.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Wisdom, Politics, Individualism

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “African and European Addresses”, p.70, tredition

• The best lesson that any people can learn is that there is no patent cure-all which will make the body politic perfect, and that any man who is able glibly to answer every question as to how to deal with the evils of the body politic is at best a foolish visionary and at worst an evil-minded quack.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, People, Evil

  Theodore Roosevelt (2006). “History as Literature and Other Essays”, p.191, Cosimo, Inc.

• Those who advocate total lack of regulation, those who advocate lawlessness in the business world, themselves give the strongest impulse to what I believe would be the deadening movement toward unadulterated state socialism.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Believe, Giving, Would Be

  Theodore Roosevelt (2006). “History as Literature and Other Essays”, p.187, Cosimo, Inc.

• There is superstition in science quite as much as there is superstition in theology, and it is all the more dangerous because those suffering from it are profoundly convinced that they are freeing themselves from all superstition.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Suffering, Politics, Superstitions

  Theodore Roosevelt (2006). “History as Literature and Other Essays”, p.247, Cosimo, Inc.

• Just as little can we afford to follow the doctrinaires of an impossible - and incidentally of a highly undesirable - social revolution which, in destroying individual rights - including property rights - and the family, would destroy the two chief agents in the advance of mankind, and the two chief reasons why either the advance or the preservation of mankind is worthwhile.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Rights, Two, Agents

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “African and European Addresses”, p.182, tredition

• What counts in a man or in a nation is not what the man or the nation can do, but what he or it actually does.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Wisdom, Men, Politics

  Theodore Roosevelt (2006). “History as Literature and Other Essays”, p.197, Cosimo, Inc.

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