Theodore Roosevelt Quotes About Neighbors

Quotes about: Neighbors

• 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

• If a strong man has not in him the lift toward lofty things, his strength makes him only a curse to himself and his neighbor.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Leadership, Strong, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “Works: The strenuous life”

• We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort; the man who never wrongs his neighbor, who is prompt to help a friend, but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Winning, Men, Effort

  Theodore Roosevelt (1920). “Roosevelt's Writings: Selections from the Writings of Theodore Roosevelt”

• The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Needs, Attention, Too Much

  Theodore Roosevelt (2013). “Bully!”, p.258, Simon and Schuster

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