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Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. dit Teddy Roosevelt /ˈɹoʊ̯.zə.vɛlt/, né le 27 octobre 1858 à New York et mort le 6 janvier 1919 à Oyster Bay, est un homme d'État américain, vingt-sixième président des États-Unis en poste de 1901 à 1909. Il est également historien, naturaliste, explorateur, écrivain et soldat.

Membre du Parti républicain, il est successivement chef de la police de New York entre 1895 et 1897, adjoint du secrétaire à la Marine de 1897 à 1898, engagé volontaire dans la guerre hispano-américaine de 1898 où il s'illustre à la tête de son régiment de cavalerie, les Rough Riders, à la bataille de San Juan puis gouverneur de l'État de New York entre 1899 et 1900.

Vice-président des États-Unis sous le mandat de William McKinley, il lui succède après son assassinat par un anarchiste et termine son mandat du 14 septembre 1901 au 3 mars 1905. Roosevelt entame ensuite son propre mandat présidentiel qu'il termine le 3 mars 1909. Conformément à ses engagements, il ne postule pas en 1908 à un nouveau mandat présidentiel.

Il est le plus jeune président des États-Unis. Sa présidence est notamment marquée, sur le plan international, par sa médiation dans la guerre russo-japonaise, qui lui vaut le prix Nobel de la paix et son soutien à la première conférence de La Haye en ayant recours à l'arbitrage pour résoudre un contentieux opposant les États-Unis au Mexique. Sa politique dite du Big Stick , puis l'affirmation du corollaire Roosevelt à la doctrine Monroe, justifie la prise de contrôle par les États-Unis du canal de Panamá. En politique intérieure, son mandat est marqué par une politique volontariste de préservation des ressources naturelles et par l'adoption de deux lois importantes sur la protection des consommateurs, le Hepburn Act de 1906, qui renforce les pouvoirs de la Commission du commerce entre États, et le Pure Food and Drug Act de 1906, qui fonde la Food and Drug Administration.

En 1912, mécontent de la politique de son successeur, le républicain William Howard Taft, il se présente comme candidat du mouvement progressiste. S'il remporte plus de suffrages que le président Taft, il divise le camp républicain et permet l'élection du candidat démocrate Woodrow Wilson à la présidence des États-Unis.

L'effigie de Roosevelt a été reproduite sur le mont Rushmore aux côtés des présidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson et Abraham Lincoln. Wikipedia  

✵ 27. octobre 1858 – 6. janvier 1919  •  Autres noms Teddy Rosevelt, Teddy Roosevelt
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“Éduquer une personne dans l'esprit mais pas dans la morale, c'est éduquer une menace pour la société.”

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“Le courage, ce n'est pas d'avoir la force de continuer ; c'est quand on n'a plus cette force qu'il se manifeste.”

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Theodore Roosevelt: Citations en anglais

“The willfully idle man, like the willfully barren woman, has no place in a sane, healthy, and vigorous community. Moreover, the gross and hideous selfishness for which each stands defeats even its own miserable aims. Exactly as infinitely the happiest woman is she who has borne and brought up many healthy children, so infinitely the happiest man is he who has toiled hard and successfully in his life-work. The work may be done in a thousand different ways —with the brain or the hands, in the study, the field, or the workshop—if it is honest work, honestly done and well worth doing, that is all we have a right to ask. Every father and mother here, if they are wise, will bring up their children not to shirk difficulties, but to meet them and overcome them; not to strive after a life of ignoble ease, but to strive to do their duty, first to themselves and their families, and then to the whole state; and this duty must inevitably take the shape of work in some form or other.”

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1900s, The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses (1900), National Duties

“Moreover, it is well to remember that these movements never achieve the end they nominally have in view. They do nothing whatsoever except to increase among the men of the various churches the spirit of sectarian intolerance which is base and unlovely in any civilization, but which is utterly revolting among a free people that profess the principles we profess. No such movement can ever permanently succeed here. All that it does is for a decade or so to greatly increase the spirit of theological animosity, both among the people to whom it appeals and among the people whom it assails. Furthermore, it has in the past invariably resulted, in so far as it was successful at all, in putting unworthy men into office; for there is nothing that a man of loose principles and of evil practices in public life so desires as the chance to distract attention from his own shortcomings and misdeeds by exciting and inflaming theological and sectarian prejudice.”

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1910s, Address to the Knights of Columbus (1915)

“I feel that you have not only reflected honor upon the state which for its good fortune has you as its chief executive, but upon the whole nation. It is incumbent upon every man throughout this country not only to hold up your hands in the course you have been following, but to show his realization that the matter is one of vital concern to us all.”

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1900s, Letter to Winfield T. Durbin (1903)

“Among the wise and high-minded people who in self-respecting and genuine fashion strive earnestly for peace, there are the foolish fanatics always to be found in such a movement and always discrediting it — the men who form the lunatic fringe in all reform movements.”

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Source: 1910s, Theodore Roosevelt — An Autobiography (1913), Ch. VII : The War of American and the Unready.

“You will soon find that it is not his clothes but his political sense and energy that control. You will find that if you expect to do anything there will be mighty little temptation to try to treat the men with whom you are working on any basis save the fundamental democratic basis of what they amount to, and what you can show you amount to as compared to them. So that if you go into life to do anything, it is perfectly useless for me to tell you to get rid of snobbery, because you will have to. It is just as true in every other field as in politics. Every man who works in philanthropy and he can do nothing in philanthropy unless he combines a very earnest desire to accomplish what is decent with the determination to accomplish it in practical fashion […] if he goes into philanthropy and tries to do something in a college settlement, tries to do his part in working to disentangle the tangled knot of our social and civic life, he will find just as soon as he gets interested in his work he wont care and won't know who the people are who are with him except as he judges them by their fruits. The interest that you take in him is, can a given man accomplish something? If he can not, then let him give place to the man who can.”

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1900s, Address at the Prize Day Exercises at Groton School (1904)

“We stand at Armageddon and we battle for the Lord.”

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Speech at Progressive Party Convention, Chicago http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/images/research/speeches/trreactionaires.pdf (17 June 1912) <br class="br">1910s

“The mechanism of modern business is so delicate that extreme care must be taken not to interfere with it in a spirit of rashness or ignorance. Many of those who have made it their vocation to denounce the great industrial combinations which are popularly, although with technical inaccuracy, known as "trusts," appeal especially to hatred and fear. These are precisely the two emotions, particularly when combined with ignorance, which unfit men for the exercise of cool and steady judgment. In facing new industrial conditions, the whole history of the world shows that legislation will generally be both unwise and ineffective unless undertaken after calm inquiry and with sober self-restraint. […] All this is true; and yet it is also true that there are real and grave evils, one of the chief being over-capitalization because of its many baleful consequences; and a resolute and practical effort must be made to correct these evils. There is a widespread conviction in the minds of the American people that the great corporations known as trusts are in certain of their features and tendencies hurtful to the general welfare. This […] is based upon sincere conviction that combination and concentration should be, not prohibited, but supervised and within reasonable limits controlled; and in my judgment this conviction is right.”

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1900s, First Annual Message to Congress (1901)

“The whole world is bound together as never before; the bonds are sometimes those of hatred rather than love, but they are bonds nevertheless. Frowning or hopeful, every man of leadership in any line of thought or effort must now look beyond the limits of his own country. … For weal or for woe, the peoples of mankind are knit together far closer than ever before.”

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1910s, The World Movement (1910)

“Many qualities are needed by a people which would preserve the power of self- government in fact as well as in name. Among these qualities are forethought, shrewdness, self-restraint, the courage which refuses to abandon one's own rights, and the disinterested and kindly good sense which enables one to do justice to the rights of others. Lack of strength and lack of courage and unfit men for self-government on the one hand; and on the other, brutal arrogance, envy -- in short, any manifestation of the spirit of selfish disregard, whether of one's own duties or of the rights of others, are equally fatal.”

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1900s, A Square Deal (1903)

“Even in ordinary times there are very few of us who do not see the problems of life as through a glass, darkly; and when the glass is clouded by the murk of furious popular passion, the vision of the best and the bravest is dimmed.”

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1910s, The New Nationalism (1910)

“We must make popular government responsible for the betterment both of the individual and of society at large. Let me repeat once more that, while such responsible governmental action is an absolutely necessary thing to achieve our purpose, yet it will be worse than useless if it is not accompanied by a serious effort on the part of the individuals composing the community thus to achieve each for himself a higher standard of individual betterment, not merely material but spiritual and intellectual. In other words, our democracy depends on individual improvement just as much as upon collective effort to achieve our common social improvement. The most serious troubles of the present day are unquestionably due in large part to lack of efficient govern-mental action, and cannot be remedied without such action; but neither can any remedy permanently avail unless back of it stands a high general character of individual citizenship.”

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1910s, The Progressives, Past and Present (1910)

“The men of Yale, the men of the universities, all, who, when the country called, went to give their lives, did more than reflect honor upon the universities from which they came. They did that which they could not have done so well in any other way. They showed that 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.”

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Address at the Yale Alumni Dinner http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/images/research/txtspeeches/653.txt, The Oxford Club, Brooklyn, New York (3 March 1899) <br class="br">1890s

“There are good men and bad men of all nationalities, creeds and colors; and if this world of ours is ever to become what we hope some day it may become, it must be by the general recognition that the man's heart and soul, the man's worth and actions, determine his standing.”

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Letter http://www.trsite.org/content/pages/speaking-loudly (1 September 1903), Oyster Bay, New York <br class="br">1900s

“There is a curse on this house.”

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Theodore repeating what his brother, Elliot Roosevelt, said when Theodore reached his home in New York City to find both mother and wife dying on the evening of 13 February 1884; in this same house their father had also died from stomach cancer on 9 February 1878, at the age of 46.
1880s

“If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base, and sordid creature, no matter how successful.”

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Letter to his son, Kermit, quoted in Theodore Roosevelt by Joseph Bucklin Bishop http://www.trsite.org/content/pages/speaking-loudly (1915) <br class="br">1910s

“As it is with the soldier, so it is with the civilian. To win success in the business world, to become a first-class mechanic, a successful farmer, an able lawyer or doctor, means that the man has devoted his best energy and power through long years to the achievement of his ends. So it is in the life of the family, upon which in the last analysis the whole welfare of the nation rests. The man or woman who, as bread-winner and home-maker, or as wife and mother, has done all that he or she can do, patiently and uncomplainingly, is to be honored; and is to be envied by all those who have never had the good fortune to feel the need and duty of doing such work.”

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1900s, A Square Deal (1903)

“Nevertheless, the fact that there are dangers in following a given course merely means that we should follow it with a cautious realization of these dangers, and not that we should abandon it, if on the whole it is the right course.”

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1910s, The Progressives, Past and Present (1910)

“It is a bad thing for a nation to raise and to admire a false standard of success; and there can be no falser standard than that set by the deification of material well-being in and for itself.”

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1910s, Citizenship in a Republic (1910)

“Corporations are necessary to the effective use of the forces of production and commerce under modern conditions. We cannot effectively prohibit all combinations without doing far-reaching economic harm; and it is mere folly to do as we have done in the past—to try to combine incompatible systems—that is, to try both to prohibit and regulate combinations. Combinations in industry are the result of an imperative economic law which cannot be repealed by political legislation. The effort at prohibiting all combination has substantially failed. The only course left is active corporate regulation – that is, the control of corporations for the common good—the suppression of the evils that they work, and the retention, as far as maybe, of that business efficiency in their use which has placed us in the forefront of industrial peoples.”

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1910s, The Progressives, Past and Present (1910)

“Our country—this great republic—means nothing unless it means the triumph of a real democracy, the triumph of popular government, and, in the long run, of an economic system under which each man shall be guaranteed the opportunity to show the best that there is in him.”

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1910s, The New Nationalism (1910)

“To borrow a simile from the football field, we believe that men must play fair, but that there must be no shirking, and that the success can only come to the player who hits the line hard.”

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Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, NY http://www.trsite.org/content/pages/speaking-loudly (October 1897) <br class="br">1890s

“The growth of cities has gone on beyond comparison faster than the growth of the country, and the upbuilding of the great industrial centers has meant a startling increase, not merely in the aggregate of wealth, but in the number of very large individual, and especially of very large corporate, fortunes. The creation of these great corporate fortunes has not been due to the tariff nor to any other governmental action, but to natural causes in the business world, operating in other countries as they operate in our own.”

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1900s, First Annual Message to Congress (1901)

“It cannot be too often repeated that in this country, in the long run, we all of us tend to go up or go down together. If the average of well-being is high, it means that the average wage-worker, the average farmer, and the average business man are all alike well-off. If the average shrinks, there is not one of these classes which will not feel the shrinkage. Of course, there are always some men who are not affected by good times, just as there are some men who are not affected by bad times. But speaking broadly, it is true that if prosperity comes, all of us tend to share more or less therein, and that if adversity comes each of us, to a greater or less extent, feels the tension.”

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1900s, A Square Deal (1903)

“Let me, in closing, put my position in a nutshell. When I say that I am for the square deal, I mean not merely that I stand for fair play under the present rules of the game, but that I stand for having these rules changed so as to work for a more substantial equality of opportunity and of reward for equally good service. So far as possible, the reward should be based upon service; and this necessarily implies that where a man renders us service in return for the fortune he receives, he has the right to receive it only on terms just to the whole people.”

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1910s, The Progressives, Past and Present (1910)

“Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual flabbiness, to which those doom themselves who elect to spend all their years in that vainest of all vain pursuits—the pursuit of mere pleasure as a sufficient end in itself.”

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1900s, The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses (1900), National Duties

“The process has aroused much antagonism, a great part of which is wholly without warrant. It is not true that as the rich have grown richer the poor have grown poorer. On the contrary, never before has the average man, the wage-worker, the farmer, the small trader, been so well off as in this country and at the present time. There have been abuses connected with the accumulation of wealth; yet it remains true that a fortune accumulated in legitimate business can be accumulated by the person specially benefited only on condition of conferring immense incidental benefits upon others. Successful enterprise, of the type which benefits all mankind, can only exist if the conditions are such as to offer great prizes as the rewards of success.”

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1900s, First Annual Message to Congress (1901)

“We shall make mistakes; and if we let these mistakes frighten us from our work we shall show ourselves weaklings.”

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1900s, The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses (1900), National Duties

“I suppose my critics will call that preaching, but I have got such a bully pulpit!”

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As quoted by Lyman Abbott, in The Outlook (27 February 1909); repeated in the New York Times (6 March 1909); "Bully" in this sense was common slang adjective for "admirable", "excellent".
1900s, Bully Pulpit (1909)

“Most emphatically I do wish that the people should have the right to recall the decision, and authoritatively to stamp with disapproval what cannot but seem to the ordinary plain citizen a monstrous misconstruction of the constitution, a monstrous perversion of the constitution into an instrument for the perpetuation of social and industrial wrong and for the oppression of the weak and helpless.”

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1910s, California's Policies Proclaimed (Feb. 21, 1911)

“Nor is it only the Germans and Austrians who take the view that as a matter of right they can treat their countrymen resident in America, even if naturalized citizens of the United States, as their allies and subjects, to be used in keeping alive separate national groups profoundly anti-American in sentiment, if the contest comes between American interests and those of foreign lands in question. It has recently been announced that the Russian government is to rent a house in New York as a national center to be Russian in faith and patriotism, to foster the Russian language and keep alive the national feeling in immigrants who come hither. All of this is utterly antagonistic to proper American sentiment, whether perpetrated in the name of Germany, of Austria, of Russia, of England, or France or any other country.”

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1910s, Address to the Knights of Columbus (1915)

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