3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Theodore Roosevelt I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
3 December 2020 Theodore Roosevelt Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.
3 December 2020 Theodore Roosevelt Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.
3 December 2020 Theodore Roosevelt 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.
3 December 2020 Theodore Roosevelt To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
3 December 2020 Theodore Roosevelt The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.
3 December 2020 Theodore Roosevelt I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.
3 December 2020 Theodore Roosevelt I don’t pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.
3 December 2020 Theodore Roosevelt Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
3 December 2020 Theodore Roosevelt Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
3 December 2020 Theodore Roosevelt The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.
3 December 2020 Theodore Roosevelt The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
3 December 2020 Theodore Roosevelt Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering.
3 December 2020 Theodore Roosevelt It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.
