„Rób to, co możesz, tym, co posiadasz, i tam, gdzie jesteś.”
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. (ang.)
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Theodore Roosevelt słynne cytaty
„Największą nagrodą jaką daje nam życie, jest możliwość ciężkiej i wartościowej pracy.”
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. (ang.)
Źródło: podczas swojej mowy w New York State Agricultural Association, Syracuse, Nowy Jork, 7 wrzesień 1903.
„Mów łagodnie i miej przy sobie gruby kij, a zajdziesz daleko.”
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
Źródło: wystąpienie na Minnesota State Fair (2 września 1901), cyt. za: Przemysław Damski, Teddy Bear i Teddy R. – pluszowy miś i amerykański prezydent, histmag.org, 25 listopada 2012 http://histmag.org/Teddy-Bear-i-Teddy-R.-pluszowy-mis-i-amerykanski-prezydent-7337
Theodore Roosevelt cytaty
„Ten młody człowiek nie jest dżentelmenem. Nie raczy wstać, kiedy dama wchodzi do pokoju.”
o Winstonie Churchillu.
Źródło: Paul Johnson, Bohaterowie, wyd. Świat Książki, Warszawa, 2009, tłum. Anna i Jacek Maziarscy, s. 247
gdy przyjaciel poprosił, by bardziej kontrolował Alicję, swą córkę.
Źródło: Listy (ang. The Letters…), cz. 4, s. 1140.
negatywnie o urządzonym polowaniu.
Źródło: Listy (ang. The Letters…), cz. 3, s. 378.
w liście do Henry’ego Lodge’a o lobbystach reprezentujących spółki kolejowe, którzy sprzeciwiali się ustawie regulującej ich działalność.
Źródło: Howard Zinn, Ludowa historia Stanów Zjednoczonych. Od roku 1492 do dziś, tłum. Andrzej Wojtasik, Wyd. Krytyki Politycznej, Warszawa 2016, s. 455.
„Takie decyzje ogromnie zwiększają siłę Partii Socjalistycznej!”
gdy w 1911 Sąd Najwyższy stwierdził, że nowojorskie przepisy regulujące odszkodowania dla robotników są niezgodne z konstytucją.
Źródło: Howard Zinn, Ludowa historia Stanów Zjednoczonych. Od roku 1492 do dziś, tłum. Andrzej Wojtasik, Wyd. Krytyki Politycznej, Warszawa 2016, s. 458.
w przemówieniu do marynarzy, gdy w 1893 Senat USA odrzucił decyzję prezydenta Benjamina Harrisona o aneksji Hawajów.
Źródło: Howard Zinn, Ludowa historia Stanów Zjednoczonych. Od roku 1492 do dziś, tłum. Andrzej Wojtasik, Wyd. Krytyki Politycznej, Warszawa 2016, s. 392.
w liście do przyjaciela z 1897 roku.
Źródło: Howard Zinn, Ludowa historia Stanów Zjednoczonych. Od roku 1492 do dziś, tłum. Andrzej Wojtasik, Wyd. Krytyki Politycznej, Warszawa 2016, s. 388.
w liście do szwagra z Wall Street.
Źródło: Howard Zinn, Ludowa historia Stanów Zjednoczonych. Od roku 1492 do dziś, tłum. Andrzej Wojtasik, Wyd. Krytyki Politycznej, Warszawa 2016, s. 455.
Theodore Roosevelt: Cytaty po angielsku
Letter to S. Stanwood Menken, chairman, committee on Congress of Constructive Patriotism (January 10, 1917). Roosevelt’s sister, Mrs. Douglas Robinson, read the letter to a national meeting, January 26, 1917. Reported in Proceedings of the Congress of Constructive Patriotism, Washington, D.C., January 25–27, 1917 (1917), p. 172
1910s
Kontekst: Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood—the virtues that made America. The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
“A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.”
Chapter V Applied Idealism http://www.bartleby.com/55/5.html
1910s, Theodore Roosevelt — An Autobiography (1913)
“If I must choose between righteousness and peace I choose righteousness.”
America and the World War (1915)
1910s
1900s, Address at the Prize Day Exercises at Groton School (1904)
Kontekst: You need a great many qualities to make a successful man on a nine or an eleven; and just so you need a great many different qualities to make a good citizen. In the first place, of course it is al most tautological to say that to make a good citizen the prime need is to be decent, clean in thought, clean in mind, clean in action; to have an ideal and not to keep that ideal purely for the study to have an ideal which you will in good faith strive to live up to when you are out in life. If you have an ideal only good while you sit at home, an ideal that nobody can live up to in outside life, then I advise you strongly to take that ideal, examine it closely, and then cast it away. It is not a good one. The ideal that it is impossible for a man to strive after in practical life is not the type of ideal that you wish to hold up and follow. Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground. Be truthful; a lie implies fear, vanity or malevolence; and be frank; furtiveness and insincerity are faults incompatible with true manliness. Be honest, and remember that honesty counts for nothing unless back of it lie courage and efficiency. If in this country we ever have to face a state of things in which on one side stand the men of high ideals who are honest, good, well-meaning, pleasant people, utterly unable to put those ideals into shape in the rough field of practical life, while on the other side are grouped the strong, powerful, efficient men with no ideals: then the end of the Republic will be near. The salvation of the Republic depends the salvation of our whole social system depends upon the production year by year of a sufficient number of citizens who possess high ideals combined with the practical power to realize them in actual life.
Źródło: The Man In The Arena: Speeches and Essays by Theodore Roosevelt
“No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.”
1910s, The New Nationalism (1910)
Kontekst: 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.
Kontekst: 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.
“In life, as in football, the principle to follow is to hit the line hard.”
"The American Boy", published in St. Nicholas 27, no. 7 (May 1900), p. 574
1900s
Kontekst: 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!
“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing”
1900s, A Square Deal (1903)
Kontekst: 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.
“A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.”
Źródło: New Nationalism Speech by Teddy Roosevelt
“The worst of all fears is the fear of living”
Theodore Roosevelt
książka
Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography
Źródło: Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography
