Theodore Roosevelt citations

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“Éduquer une personne dans l'esprit mais pas dans la morale, c'est éduquer une menace pour la société.”

“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.”

“Le seul qui ne fait pas d'erreur est celui qui ne fait jamais rien.”

“Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work is as valuable as that of a man it should be paid as highly.”

“I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.”

“No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we require him to obey it. Obedience to the law is demanded as a right; not asked as a favor.”

“The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value.”

“The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided, but NEVER hit softly.”

“All the resources we need are in the mind.”

“It tires me to talk to rich men. You expect a man of millions, the head of a great industry, to be a man worthhearing; but as a rule they don't know anything outside their own business.”

“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official.”

“I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!”

“People ask the difference between a leader and a boss… The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.”

“There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.”

“Although not a very old man, I have yet lived a great deal in my life, and I have known sorrow too bitter and joy too keen to allow me to become either cast down or elated for more than a very brief period over any success or defeat.”

“It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.”

“We should not forget that it will be just as important to our descendants to be prosperous in their time as it is to us to be prosperous in our time.”

“Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords.”

“The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books”

“The government is us; we are the government, you and I.”

“This country will not be a permanently good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a reasonably good place for all of us to live in.”

“the most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.”

“It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.”

“A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.”

“Americanism is a question of principle, of idealism, of character. It is not a matter of birthplace, or creed, or line of descent.”

“I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds.”

“It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone, but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching.”

“There can be no life without change, and to be afraid of what is different or unfamiliar is to be afraid of life.”

“Each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune.”

“The corporation is the creature of government, and the people have the right to handle it as they desire; all they need pay attention to is the expediency of realizing this right in some way that shall be productive of good and not harm.”

“The absence of effective State, and, especially, national, restraint upon unfair money-getting has tended to create a small class of enormously wealthy and economically powerful men, whose chief object is to hold and increase their power. The prime need to is to change the conditions which enable these men to accumulate power which it is not for the general welfare that they should hold or exercise.”

“An additional reason for caution in dealing with corporations is to be found in the international commercial conditions of to-day. The same business conditions which have produced the great aggregations of corporate and individual wealth have made them very potent factors in international Commercial competition. Business concerns which have the largest means at their disposal and are managed by the ablest men are naturally those which take the lead in the strife for commercial supremacy among the nations of the world. America has only just begun to assume that commanding position in the international business world which we believe will more and more be hers. It is of the utmost importance that this position be not jeoparded, especially at a time when the overflowing abundance of our own natural resources and the skill, business energy, and mechanical aptitude of our people make foreign markets essential. Under such conditions it would be most unwise to cramp or to fetter the youthful strength of our Nation. Moreover, it cannot too often be pointed out that to strike with ignorant violence at the interests of one set of men almost inevitably endangers the interests of all. The fundamental rule in our national life —the rule which underlies all others—is that, on the whole, and in the long run, we shall go up or down together.”