Theodore Roosevelt Quotes About Welfare

Quotes about: Welfare

• It is necessary for the welfare of the nation that men's lives be based on the principles of the Bible. No man, educated or uneducated, can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Bible, Patriotic, Men

• 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

• The Welfare of Each of Us Is Dependent Fundamentally Upon the Welfare of All of Us

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Oval, Welfare, Dependent

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.63, Taylor Trade Publications

• Malefactors of great wealth have arrogantly ignored the public welfare.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Ignored, Wealth, Welfare

• Every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may require it.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Land, Community

  Speech, Osawatomie, Kan., 31 Aug. 1910

• Let the watchwords of all our people be the old familiar watchwords of honesty, decency, fair-dealing, and commonsense."... "We must treat each man on his worth and merits as a man. We must see that each is given a square deal, because he is entitled to no more and should receive no less.""The welfare of each of us is dependent fundamentally upon the welfare of all of us.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Honesty, Men, Squares

  Speech at New York State Fair, Syracuse, N.Y., 7 Sept. 1903 See Theodore Roosevelt 11

• The man who holds that every human right is secondary to his profit must now give way to the advocate of human welfare.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Giving, Way

  Speech, Osawatomie, Kan., 31 Aug. 1910

• Each child represents either a potential addition to the protective capacity and enlightened citizenship of the nation or, if allowed to suffer from neglect, a potential addition to the destructive forces of a community. . . . The interests of the nation are involved in the welfare of this array of children no less than in our great material affairs.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Children, Community, Suffering

• The object of government is the welfare of the people. The material progress and prosperity of a nation are desirable chiefly so far as they lead to the moral and material welfare of all good citizens.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Government, People, Progress

  Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “The New Nationalism”, Best Books on

• We want the active and zealous help of every man far-sighted enough to realize the importance from the standpoint of the nation's welfare in the future of preserving the forests.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Zealous, Want

  Theodore Roosevelt (1970). “Presidential Addresses and State Papers of Theodore Roosevelt ...: With Portrait Frontispiece ...”

• In this world the one thing supremely worth having is the opportunity to do well and worthily a piece of work of vital consequence to the welfare of mankind.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Opportunity, Pieces, World

• The corporation that shrinks from the light" would have anything to fear from government. About the welfare of such corporations we need not be oversensitive.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Light, Government, Needs

• The absence of effective State, and, especially, national, restraint upon unfair money-getting has tended to create a small class of enormously wealthy and economically powerful men, whose chief object is to hold and increase their power. The prime need is to change the conditions which enable these men to accumulate power which is not for the general welfare that they should hold or exercise. We grudge no man a fortune which represents his own power and sagacity, when exercised with entire regard to the welfare of his fellows.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Powerful, Exercise, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge (2017). “The Complete Works of Theodore Roosevelt”, p.3154, Madison & Adams Press

• The object of government is the welfare of the people.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Government, People, Welfare

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.59, Taylor Trade Publications

• War is not merely justifiable, but imperative upon honorable men, upon an honorable nation, where peace can only be obtained by the sacrifice of conscientious conviction or of national welfare.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  War, Sacrifice, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (2005). “Fear God and Take Your Own Part”, p.389, Cosimo, Inc.

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