Theodore Roosevelt Quotes - Page 19

• Just as Lincoln got contradictory advice from the extremists of both sides . . . so now I have to guard myself against the extremists of both sides.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Advice, Sides, Contradictory

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• The farmer is a poor creature who skins the land and leaves it worthless to his children. The farmer is a good farmer who, having enabled the land to support himself and to provide for the education of his children, leaves it to them a little better than he found it himself.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Children, Land, Support

  Theodore Roosevelt (2004). “Letters and Speeches”

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• I can no more explain why I like "natural history" than why I like California canned peaches; nor why I do not care for that enormous brand of natural history which deals with invertebrates any more than why I do not care for brandied peaches. All I can say is that almost as soon as I began to read at all I began to like to read about the natural history of beasts and birds and the more formidable or interesting reptiles and fishes.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Animal, California, Interesting

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

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• 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”

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• Leave it as it is. You can not improve on it. You can only mar it. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it. What you can do is keep it for your children, your children's children and for all who come after you.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Children, Men, Age

  Theodore Roosevelt (2010). “The Green Roosevelt: Theodore Roosevelt in Appreciation of Wilderness, Wildlife, and Wild Places”, p.291, Cambria Press

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• I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot — but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Badass, Bad Ass, Gentleman

  "The Speech That Saved Teddy Roosevelt’s Life" by Patricia O’Toole, www.smithsonianmag.com. November 2012.

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• 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”

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• We here in America, hold in our hands the hope of the world, the fate of the coming years; and shame and disgrace will be ours if in our eyes the light of high resolve is dimmed, if we trail in the dust the golden hopes of men.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Hope, Eye, Fate

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.12, Taylor Trade Publications

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• The White House is a bully pulpit.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  White, House, Bully

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• The country's honor must be upheld at home and abroad.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Home, Honor

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• In order to succeed we need leaders of inspired idealism, leaders to whom are granted great visions, who dream greatly and strive to make their dreams come true; who can kindle the people with the fire from their own burning souls. The leader for the time being, whoever he may be, is but an instrument, to be used until broken and then to be cast aside; and if he is worth his salt he will care no more when he is broken than a soldier cares when he is sent where his life is forfeit in order that the victory may be won.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Dream, Order, Fire

  Theodore Roosevelt (1913). “Progressive Principles: Selections from Addresses Made During the Presidential Campaign of 1912”

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• Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Mean, Rights, Supremacy

  State of the Union Address - The Four Freedoms Speech, January 6, 1941.

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• 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

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• I would a great deal rather be anything, say professor of history, than vice president.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  President, Vices, Professors

  Theodore Roosevelt (1951). “1898-1903”

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• Power always brings with it responsibility.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Responsibility, Evil, Good And Evil

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

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• The bulk of government is not legislation but administration.

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  Government, Administration, Legislation

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.90, Cornell University Press

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• Fertile plains, every foot of them tilled, are of the first necessity; but great natural playgrounds of mountain, forest, cliff-walled lake, and brawling brook are also necessary to the full and many-sided development of a fine race.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Lakes, Race, Feet

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

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• Councils of War never fight.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Peace, War, Fighting

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

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• In popular government results worth while can only be achieved by men who combine worthy ideals with practical good sense.

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  Men, History, Results

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.96, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Property belongs to man and not man to property.

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  Men, Property

  Address at the Sorbonne, Paris, 23 Apr. 1910

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• There is no moral difference between gambling at cards or in lotteries or on the race track and gambling in the stock market. One method is just pernicious to the body politic as the other kind.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Gambling, Race, Differences

  United States. President (1901-1909 : Roosevelt), Theodore Roosevelt (1908). “The Roosevelt Policy: Speeches, Letters and State Papers, Relating to Corporate Wealth and Closely Allied Topics, of Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States”

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• The chase is among the best of all national pastimes; it cultivates that vigorous manliness for the lack of which in a nation, as in an individual, the possession of no other qualities can possibly atone.

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  Quality, Individual, Possession

  Theodore Roosevelt (2000). “Hunting Trips of a Ranchman and The Wilderness Hunter”, p.14, Modern Library

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• The poorest way to face life is to face it with a sneer.

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  Way, Faces, Life Is

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

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• I keep my good health by having a very bad temper, kept under good control.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Good Health, Temper, Bad Temper

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.69, Taylor Trade Publications

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• All constitutions, those of the States no less than that of the nation, are designed, and must be interpreted and administered so as to fit human rights.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Rights, Constitution, Fit

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.75, Cornell University Press

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