Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
Biography:
Theodore Roosevelt, known for being the 26th President of the United S... more
Biography:
Theodore Roosevelt, known for being the 26th President of the United States, was a dynamic leader and progressive reformer. Born in 1858, he championed the Square Deal, worked to regulate big businesses, and spearheaded progressive domestic policies. An ardent conservationist, he expanded national parks and forests. less
Tags: Character development, Personal values, National identity, Leadership qualities, Cultural impact
"Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.""We must remember not to judge any public servant by any one act, and especially should we beware of attacking the men who are merely the occasions and not the cause of disaster.""We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.""The men and women who have the right ideals... are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty.""In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: hit the line hard.""Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking.""All the resources we need are in the mind.""Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual; and neither a nation nor an individual can s""If I must choose between peace and righteousness, I choose righteousness.""It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home.""A stream cannot rise larger than its source.""This country has nothing to fear from the crooked man who fails. We put him in jail. It is the crooked man who succeeds who is a threat to this country.""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."
