Theodore Roosevelt Quotes - Page 21

• It is character that counts in a nation as in a man.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Character, Men, Nations

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.102, Courier Corporation

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• No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Effort, Intellectual, Done

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• Alike for the nation and the individual, the one indispensable requisite is character.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Character, Individual, Indispensable

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.60, Cornell University Press

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• It is no limitation upon property rights or freedom of contract to require that when men receive from government the privilege of doing business under corporate form... they shall do so under absolutely truthful representations... Great corporations exist only because they were created and safeguarded by our institutions; and it is therefore our right and duty to see that they work in harmony with these institutions.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Business, Men, Rights

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• To have acted otherwise ... would have been the betrayal of the interests of the United States.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Betrayal, United States, Interest

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• 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

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• There is no patent recipe for getting good citizenship. You get it by applying the old, old rules of decent conduct, the rules in accordance with which decent men have had to shape their lives from the beginning .. fundamental precepts, put forth in the Bible and embodied consciously or unconsciously in the code of morals of every great and successful nation from antiquity to modern times.

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  Successful, Men, Patents

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• The supreme duty of the Nation is the conservation of human resources through an enlightened measure of social and industrial justice. We pledge ourselves to work unceasingly in State and Nation for ... the protection of home life against the hazards of sickness, irregular employment and old age through the adoption of a system of social insurance adapted to American use.

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  Home, Justice, Adoption

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• What I have advocated is not wild radicalism. It is the highest and wisest kind of conservatism.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Radicalism, Kind, Conservatism

  Theodore Roosevelt (1912). “The Conservation of Womanhood and Childhood”, Best Books

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• The biggest corporation, like the humblest private citizen, must be held to strict compliance with the will of the people as expressed in the fundamental law.

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  Law, People, Citizens

  Theodore Roosevelt (1904). “What Roosevelt Says ...”

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• It either is or ought to be evident to everyone that business has to prosper before anyone can get any benefit from it.

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  Benefits, Ought, Evident

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• Every special interest is entitled to justice - full, fair, and complete... but not one is entitled to a vote in Congress, to a voice on the bench, or to representation in any public office.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Voice, Justice, Office

  "New Nationalism Speech". Theodore Roosevelt's speech at the Dedication of the John Brown Memorial Park in Osawatomie, Kansas, teachingamericanhistory.org. August 31, 1910.

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• The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

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  Creativity, Two, People

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• It is an incalculable added pleasure to any one's sum of happiness if he or she grows to know, even slightly and imperfectly, how to read and enjoy the wonder-book of nature.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Book, Presidential, Wonder

  Theodore Roosevelt (1990). “Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter”, p.339, Stackpole Books

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• There can be no greater issue than that of conservation in this country.

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  Country, Issues, Conservative

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

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• 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.

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  Opportunity, Pieces, World

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• Never hit if you can help it, but when you have to, hit hard. Never hit soft. You'll never get any thanks for hitting soft.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Hitting, Helping, Thanks

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• Ruin looks us in the face if we judge a man by his position instead of judging him by his conduct in that position.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Judging, Looks

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

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• Freedom is not a gift which can be enjoyed save by those shown themselves worthy of it.

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  President, Worthy, Enjoyed

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• Not trying is the surest way of achieving nothing at all.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Encouragement, Trying, Way

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• Just as you believe you may have already halfway there

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  Believe, Halfway There, May

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• There are always in life countless tendencies for good and for evil, and each succeeding generation sees some of these tendencies strengthened and some weakened; nor is it by any means always, alas! that the tendencies for evil are weakened and those for good strengthened. But during the last few decades there certainly have been some notable changes for good in boy life. The great growth in the love of athletic sports, for instance, while fraught with danger if it becomes one-sided and unhealthy, has beyond all question had an excellent effect in increased manliness.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Sports, Mean, Boys

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.73, Courier Corporation

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• It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.

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  Ambition, Dreamer, Doers

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.33, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Look Toward the stars but keep your feet firmly on the ground.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Stars, Feet, Looks

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• There is a homely old adage which runs: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Running, Patriotic, Training

  Speech at Chicago, 3 April 1903, in 'New York Times' 4 April 1903

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