Theodore Roosevelt Quotes - Page 14

• No nation can be really great unless it is great in peace, in industry, integrity, honesty. Skilled intelligence in civic affairs and industrial enterprises alike; the special ability of the artist, the man of letters, the man of science, and the man of business; the rigid determination to wrong no man, and to stand for righteousness-all these are necessary in a great nation.

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  Determination, Honesty, Integrity

  Theodore Roosevelt (1897). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt: American ideals. Administration-Civil service”

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• Freemasonry teaches not merely temperance, fortitude, prudence, justice, brotherly love, relief, and truth, but liberty, equality, and fraternity, and it denounces ignorance, superstition, bigotry, lust tyranny and despotism.

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  Ignorance, Justice, Lust

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• I do. That is character!

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  Inspirational, Character

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• There are many occasions when the highest praise one can receive is the attack of some given scoundrel.

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  Praise, Scoundrels, Given

  Theodore Roosevelt (1952). “The Big Stick, 1905-1909”

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• I wish to say seriously to all the daily newspapers, to the Republicans, the Democrat, and Socialist parties, that they cannot, month in month out and year in and year out, make the kind of untruthful, of bitter assault that they have made and not expect that brutal, violent natures, or brutal and violent characters, especially when the brutality is accompanied by a not very strong mind; they cannot expect that such natures will be unaffected by it.

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  Strong, Character, Media

  "'It Takes More Than That to Kill a Bull Moose': The Leader and The Cause". Theodore Roosevelt's address at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, given a few minutes after getting shot by some anarchist, www.businessinsider.com. October 14, 1912.

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• Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

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  Running, Perseverance, Stay Strong

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.44, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I enter a most earnest plea that in our hurried and rather bustling life of today we do not lose the hold that our forefathers had on the Bible. I wish to see the Bible study as much a matter of course in the secular colleges as in the seminary. No educated man can afford to be ignorant of the Bible, and no uneducated man can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.

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  Bible, College, Men

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• If a man continually blusters, if he lacks civility, a big stick will not save him from trouble, and neither will speaking softly avail, if back of the softness there does not lie strength, power.

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  Lying, Men, Doe

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.133, Courier Corporation

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• We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.

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  Fighting, Men, Bully

  Nobel Lecture, delivered 5 May 2010, Oslo, Norway

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• It is of far more important that a man shall play something himself, even if he plays it badly, than that he shall go with hundreds of companions to see someone else play well.

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  Sports, Men, Play

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

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• Let us show, not merely in great crises, but in every day of life, qualities of practical intelligence, of hardihood and endurance, and above all, the power of devotion to a lofty ideal.

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  Life, Power, Quality

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• I highly venerate the Masonic Institution, under the fullest persuasion that, when its principles are acknowledged and its laws and precepts obeyed, it comes nearest to the Christian religion, in its moral effects and influence, of any institution with which I am acquainted.

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  Christian, Law, Principles

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• Wide differences of opinion in matters of religious, political, and social belief must exist if conscience and intellect alike are not to be stunted, if there is to be room for healthy growth.

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  Religious, Differences, Diversity

  Citizenship in a Republic - The Man in the Arena, delivered 23 April 1910, Le Sorbonne, University of Paris

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

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  Oval, Welfare, Dependent

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

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• Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

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  Attitude, Men, Oysters

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• We [must] hold the just balance and set ourselves as resolutely against improper corporate influence on the one hand as against demagogy and mob rule on the other.

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  Hands, Balance, Mob Rule

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

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• A man's usefulness depends on his living up to his ideals insofar as he can. It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune, make for a finer, nobler type of manhood. Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.

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  Men, Iron, Joy

  Theodore Roosevelt (1955). “Theodore Roosevelt's America: Selections from the Writings of the Oyster Bay Naturalist”

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• To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.

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  Inspirational, Nature, Children

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.30, Taylor Trade Publications

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• There is apt to be a lunatic fringe among the votaries of any forward movement.

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  Movement, Forward Movement, Fringe

  Theodore Roosevelt (2006). “History as Literature and Other Essays”, p.305, Cosimo, Inc.

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• In doing your work in the great world, it is a safe plan to follow a rule I once heard on the football field: Don't flinch, don't fall; hit the line hard.

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  Football, Fall, World

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• Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

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  Freedom, Order, Liberty

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.84, Taylor Trade Publications

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• 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.

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  Honesty, Men, Squares

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

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• We want men who will fix their eyes on the stars, but who will not forget that their feet must walk on the ground.

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  Graduation, Stars, Eye

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• The beauty and charm of the wilderness are his for the asking, for the edges of the wilderness lie close beside the beaten roads of the present travel.

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  Lying, Asking, Wilderness

  Theodore Roosevelt (2010). “The Green Roosevelt: Theodore Roosevelt in Appreciation of Wilderness, Wildlife, and Wild Places”, p.115, Cambria Press

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• I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

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  Patriotic, Equality, Men

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

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