Theodore Roosevelt Quotes About Socialism

Quotes about: Socialism

• To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Peace, War, Freedom Of Speech

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.146, Cornell University Press

• The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Military, Citizens, Weight

  Speech, New York, N.Y., 11 Nov. 1902

• 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.

• There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100% Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Fifty, Rooms

  Speech in Saratoga, 19 July 1918, in Roosevelt Policy (1919) vol. 3, p. 1079

• The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Attitude, Issues, Political

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

• 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

• The very reason why we object to state ownership, that it puts a stop to individual initiative and to the healthy development of personal responsibility, is the reason why we object to an unsupervised, unchecked monopolistic control in private hands. We urge control and supervision by the nation as an antidote to the movement for state socialism. 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

  Wisdom, Believe, Responsibility

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

• 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

• 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.

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