Theodore Roosevelt Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Peace, War

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.42, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Military, War, Navy

  Theodore Roosevelt (1916). “Fear God and Take Your Own Part”, New York : George H. Doran

• 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

• Our government, National and State, must be freed from the sinister influence or control of special interests. Exactly as the special interests of cotton and slavery threatened our political integrity before the Civil War, so now the great special business interests too often control and corrupt the men and methods of government for their own profit. We must drive the special interests out of politics.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Integrity, War, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (1975). “The Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt: Condensed from the Original Ed., Supplemented by Letters, Speeches, and Other Writings, and Edited with an Introd. by Wayne Andrews”, Octagon Press, Limited

• Profanity is the parlance of the fool. Why curse when there is such a magnificent language with which to discourse?

  Theodore Roosevelt

  War, Fool, Language

• The great body of our citizens shoot less as times goes on. We should encourage rifle practice among schoolboys, and indeed among all classes, as well as in the military services by every means in our power. Thus, and not otherwise, may we be able to assist in preserving peace in the world... The first step – in the direction of preparation to avert war if possible, and to be fit for war if it should come – is to teach men to shoot!

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Military, War, Mean

• Life brings sorrows and joys alike. It is what a man does with them - not what they do to him - that is the true test of his mettle.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  War, Men, Joy

• Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Peace, War, Kind

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.39, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• The Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  War, Armenia, Crime

  Theodore Roosevelt (1954). “Letters: The days of Armageddon, 1909-1914”

• ... the Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war, and the failure to act against Turkey is to condone it ... the failure to deal radically with the Turkish horror means that all talk of guaranteeing the future peace of the world is mischievous nonsense.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  War, Mean, Turkeys

  Theodore Roosevelt (1954). “Letters: The days of Armageddon, 1909-1914”

• Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war, there is none which compares in importance with the great central task of leaving this land even a better land for our descendants than it is for us.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  War, Land, Presidential

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

• A really great people, proud and high spirited, would face all the disasters of war rather than purchase that base prosperity which is bought at the price of national honor.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  War, People, Honor

  Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “American ideals”

• I abhor unjust war. I abhor injustice and bullying by the strong at the expense of the weak, whether among nations or individuals. I abhor violence and bloodshed. I believe that war should never be resorted to when, or so long as, it is honorably possible to avoid it. I respect all men and women who from high motives and with sanity and self-respect do all they can to avert war. I advocate preparation for war in order to avert war; and I should never advocate war unless it were the only alternative to dishonor.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Bullying, Strong, War

  Theodore Roosevelt (1899). “The Rough Riders: An Autobiography”, p.461, Library of America

• ...to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Peace, War, Corporations

• We must diligently strive to make our young men decent, God-fearing, law-abiding, honor-loving, justice-doing and also fearless and strong.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Strong, War, Men

• Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Peace, War, Responsibility

  Theodore Roosevelt (2013). “Bully!”, p.442, Simon and Schuster

• The wise and honorable and Christian thing to do is to treat each black man and each white man (or any person) on his merits as a man, giving him no more and no less than he is worthy to have.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Christian, Wise, War

• There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a democrat like myself must admit this. But there is absolutely nothing to be said for government by a plutocracy, for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with the money touch, but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Peace, Powerful, War

  Theodore Roosevelt (1954). “The days of Armageddon, 1900-1914”

• After the war, and until the day of his death, his position on almost every public question was either mischievous or ridiculous, and usually both.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Death, War, Ridiculous

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

• No triumph of peace is quite so great as the supreme triumphs of war.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Peace, War, Triumph

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.134, Taylor Trade Publications

• Councils of War never fight.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Peace, War, Fighting

  Theodore Roosevelt (2001). “The Selected Letters of Theodore Roosevelt”, Cooper Square Pub

• Such an experiment without actual conditions of war to support it is a foolish waste of time. . . . I once saw a man kill a lion with a 30-30 caliber rifle under certain conditions, but that doesn't mean that a 30-30 rifle is a lion gun.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  War, Mean, Men

• From reading of the people I admired - ranging from the soldiers of Valley Forge and Morgan's riflemen to my Southern forefathers and kinfolk - I felt a great admiration for men who were fearless and who could hold their own in the world. And I had a great desire to be like them.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  War, Reading, Men

• I am rather more apt to read old books than new ones.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  War, Book, Old Books

• If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Peace, War, Names

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “African and European Addresses”, p.129, tredition

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