Theodore Roosevelt quotes - page 13

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body. (Theodore Roosevelt)
For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison. View quote
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It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize. View quote
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Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it. View quote
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No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse. View quote
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The American people abhor a vacuum. View quote
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It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws. View quote
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It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things. View quote
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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster. View quote
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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young. View quote
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I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also. (Theodore Roosevelt)
The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits. View quote
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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. View quote
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A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. View quote
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Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. View quote
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The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer. View quote
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No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause. View quote
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The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead. View quote
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Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering. View quote
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Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big. View quote
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Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor. (Theodore Roosevelt)
The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife. View quote
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It seems to me that the simple acceptance of this fundamental fact of American life, this acknowledgment that the law of work is the fundamental law of our being, will help us to start aright in facing not a few of the problems that confront us from without and from within. As regards internal affairs, it should teach us the prime need of remembering that, after all has been said and done, the chief factor in any man's success or failure must be his own character-that is, the sum of his common sense, his courage, his virile energy and capacity. Nothing can take the place of this individual factor. View quote
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Our country has been populated by pioneers, and therefore it has in it more energy, more enterprise, more expansive power than any other in the wide world. [...] They have shown the qualities of daring, endurance, and far-sightedness, of eager desire for victory and stubborn refusal to accept defeat, which go to make up the essential manliness of the American character. Above all, they have recognized in practical form the fundamental law of success in American life-the law of worthy work, the law of high, resolute endeavor. We have but little room among our people for the timid, the irresolute, and the idle; and it is no less true that there is scant room in the world at large for the nation with mighty thews that dares not to be great. View quote
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Let us make it evident that we intend to do justice. Then let us make it equally evident that we will not tolerate injustice being done us in return. Let us further make it evident that we use no words which we are not which prepared to back up with deeds, and that while our speech is always moderate, we are ready and willing to make it good. Such an attitude will be the surest possible guarantee of that self-respecting peace, the attainment of which is and must ever be the prime aim of a self-governing people. View quote
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