Theodore Roosevelt Quotes, Praise Quotes, Scoundrels Quotes

There are many occasions when the highest praise one can receive is the attack of some given scoundrel.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Praise Quotes , Scoundrels Quotes

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Military Quotes , Citizens Quotes

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Country Quotes , Peace Quotes

Every person who invests in well-selected real estate in a growing section of a prosperous community adopts the surest and safest method of becoming independent, for real estate is the basis of wealth.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Real Quotes , Independent Quotes

Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war, there is none which compares in importance with the great central task of leaving this land even a better land for our descendants than it is for us.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , War Quotes , Land Quotes

It is not the critic who counts

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Courage Quotes , Military Quotes

The poorest way to face life is to face it with a sneer.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Way Quotes , Faces Quotes

When the time of danger comes, all Americans, whatever their social standing, whatever their creed, whatever the training they have received, no matter from what section of the country they have come, stand together as men, as Americans, and are content to face the same fate and do the same duties because fundamentally they all alike have the common purpose to serve the glorious flag of their common country.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Country Quotes , Fate Quotes

The effort to make financial or political profit out of the destruction of character can only result in public calamity. Gross and reckless assaults on character, whether on the stump or in newspaper, magazine, or book, create a morbid and vicious public sentiment, and at the same time act as a profound deterrent to able men of normal sensitiveness and tend to prevent them from entering the public service at any price.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Book Quotes , Character Quotes

I cannot consent to take the position that the door of hope - the door of opportunity - is to be shut upon any man, no matter how worthy, purely upon the grounds of race or color. Such an attitude would, according to my convictions, be fundamentally wrong.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Attitude Quotes , Opportunity Quotes

It is not only highly desirable but necessary that there should be legislation which shall carefully shield the interests of wage-workers, and which shall discriminate in favor of the honest and humane employer by removing the disadvantage under which he stands when compared with unscrupulous competitors who have no conscience and will do right only under fear of punishment.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Punishment Quotes , Favors Quotes

I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Political Quotes , Doe Quotes

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Country Quotes , Patriotic Quotes

Such an experiment without actual conditions of war to support it is a foolish waste of time. . . . I once saw a man kill a lion with a 30-30 caliber rifle under certain conditions, but that doesn't mean that a 30-30 rifle is a lion gun.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , War Quotes , Mean Quotes

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Attitude Quotes , Issues Quotes

There can be nothing in the world more beautiful than the Yosemite, the groves of the giant sequoias and redwoods, the Canyon of the Colorado, the Canyon of the Yellowstone, the Three Tetons; and our people should see to it that they are preserved for their children and their children's children forever, with their majestic beauty all unmarred.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Children Quotes

A healthy-minded boy should feel hearty contempt for the coward and even more hearty indignation for the boy who bullies girls or small boys, or tortures animals.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Girl Quotes , Animal Quotes

Death by violence, death by cold, death by starvation - they are the normal endings of the stately creatures of the wilderness. The sentimentalists who prattle about the peaceful life of nature do not realize its utter mercilessness.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Peaceful Quotes , Violence Quotes

The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , War Quotes , Savages Quotes

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Country Quotes , Rooms Quotes