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“All the resources we need are in the mind.”
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
Speech before the Colorado Live Stock Association, Denver, Colorado (August 29, 1910); in The New Nationalism (1910), p. 52; also inscribed on Cox Corridor II, a first floor House corridor, U.S. Capitol.
1910s
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
Third State of the Union Address (7 December 1903)
1900s
“I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.”
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
Chapter V Applied Idealism http://www.bartleby.com/55/5.html <br class="br">1910s, Theodore Roosevelt — An Autobiography (1913)
“Comparison is the thief of joy.”
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
As quoted in Becoming a Great School (2013) by Cooper, Gustafson and Salah, p. ix
Disputed
“For those who fight for it life has a flavor the sheltered will never know”
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
“90% of the work in this country is done
by people who don't feel good".”
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
“Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.”
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
“The worst of all fears is the fear of living”
Theodore Roosevelt book Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography
Source: Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography
“A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.”
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
Source: New Nationalism Speech by Teddy Roosevelt
“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing”
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
1900s, A Square Deal (1903)
Context: Among ourselves we differ in many qualities of body, head, and heart; we are unequally developed, mentally as well as physically. But each of us has the right to ask that he shall be protected from wrong-doing as he does his work and carries his burden through life. No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing; and this is a prize open to every man, for there can be no better worth doing than that done to keep in health and comfort and with reasonable advantages those immediately dependent upon the husband, the father, or the son. There is no room in our healthy American life for the mere idler, for the man or the woman whose object it is throughout life to shirk the duties which life ought to bring. Life can mean nothing worth meaning, unless its prime aim is the doing of duty, the achievement of results worth achieving.
“In life, as in football, the principle to follow is to hit the line hard.”
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
"The American Boy", published in St. Nicholas 27, no. 7 (May 1900), p. 574
1900s
Context: In short, in life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard; don't foul and don't shirk, but hit the line hard!
“Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.”
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
“No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.”
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
1910s, The New Nationalism (1910)
Context: No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned. Every dollar received should represent a dollar's worth of service rendered — not gambling in stocks, but service rendered.
Context: No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned. Every dollar received should represent a dollar's worth of service rendered — not gambling in stocks, but service rendered. The really big fortune, the swollen fortune, by the mere fact of its size acquires qualities which differentiate it in kind as well as in degree from what is possessed by men of relatively small means. Therefore, I believe in a graduated income tax on big fortunes, and in another tax which is far more easily collected and far more effective — a graduated inheritance tax on big fortunes, properly safeguarded against evasion and increasing rapidly in amount with the size of the estate.