Theodore Roosevelt Quotes About Office

Quotes about: Office

• No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  People, Office, President

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.81, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• These international bankers and Rockefeller Standard Oil interests control the majority of newspapers and the columns of these papers to club into submission or drive out of public office officials who refuse to do the bidding of the powerful corrupt cliques which compose the invisible government.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Powerful, Government, Oil

• It is the people, and not the judges, who are entitled to say what their constitution means, for the constitution is theirs, it belongs to them and not to their servants in office—any other theory is incompatible with the foundation principles of our government.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Mean, Government, People

  William L. Ransom, Theodore Roosevelt (2007). “Majority Rule and the Judiciary: An Examination of Current Proposals for Constitutional Change Affecting the Relation of Courts to Legislation”, p.6, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

• If we put corrupt men in public office and sneeringly acquiesce in their corruptions, then we are wrong ourselves.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Office, Corruption

• Every special interest is entitled to justice - full, fair, and complete... but not one is entitled to a vote in Congress, to a voice on the bench, or to representation in any public office.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Voice, Justice, Office

  "New Nationalism Speech". Theodore Roosevelt's speech at the Dedication of the John Brown Memorial Park in Osawatomie, Kansas, teachingamericanhistory.org. August 31, 1910.

• If there is one thing for which we stand in this country, it is for complete religious freedom, and it is an emphatic negation of this right to cross-examine a man on his religion before being willing to support him for office.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Religious, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

• A President has a great chance; his position is almost that of a king and a prime minister rolled into one. Once he has left office he cannot do very much; and he is a fool if he fails to realize it all and to be profoundly thankful for having had the great chance.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Kings, Office, President

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

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