Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

778 quotes · Politician, Author

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Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

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Theodore Roosevelt

Politician, Author

Optimistic

“I believe that the next half century will determine if we will advance the cause of Christian civilization or revert to the horrors of brutal paganism.”

Christian God Bible

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Theodore Roosevelt

Politician, Author

Philosophical

“If there is one tendency of the day which more than any other is unhealthy and undesirable, it is the tendency to deify mere "smartness," unaccompanied by a sense of moral accountability. We shall never make our republic what it should be until as a people we thoroughly understand and put in practice the doctrine that success is abhorrent if attained by the sacrifice of the fundamental principles of morality.”

People Practice Sacrifice

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Confident

“Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.”

Law Favors Obedience

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Melancholic

“Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.”

Distance Missing You

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Peaceful

“If I have to choose between peace and righteousness, I'll choose righteousness.”

Ifs Righteousness

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Confident

“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.”

Men Lying Doe

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Rebellious

“Great corporations exist only because they are created and safeguarded by our institutions; and it is therefore our right and duty to see that they work in harmony with these institutions.”

Corporations Harmony Institutions

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Adventurous

“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.”

Lying Asking Wilderness

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Optimistic

“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.”

Honesty Integrity Determination

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Hopeful

“From reading of the people I admired - ranging from the soldiers of Valley Forge and Morgan's riflemen to my Southern forefathers and kinfolk - I felt a great admiration for men who were fearless and who could hold their own in the world. And I had a great desire to be like them.”

Men War Reading

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Angry

“Compromise" is so often used in a bad sense that it is difficult to remember that properly it merely describes the process of reaching an agreement. Naturally there are certain subjects on which no man can compromise. For instance, there must be no compromise under any circumstances with official corruption, and of course no man should hesitate to say as much.”

Men Remember Compromise

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Courageous

“The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.”

Country Peace Humanity

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