Theodore Roosevelt cytaty (460 cytatów, strona 9)

Theodore Roosevelt: 460 Cytatów 15 Polubień

Theodore Roosevelt słynne cytaty

„Rób to, co możesz, tym, co posiadasz, i tam, gdzie jesteś.”

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Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. (ang.)

To tłumaczenie czeka na recenzję. Czy to jest poprawne?

„Kształcenie rozumu człowieka, lecz nie jego moralności, jest jak kształcenie zagrożenia dla społeczeństwa.”

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„Największą nagrodą jaką daje nam życie, jest możliwość ciężkiej i wartościowej pracy.”

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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.

„Kształcić tylko umysł człowieka, nie udzielając mu nauk moralnych, to stwarzać zagrożenie społeczne.”

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„Mów łagodnie i miej przy sobie gruby kij, a zajdziesz daleko.”

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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

„Uznanie należy się człowiekowi, który jest na arenie; którego twarz naznaczona jest pyłem, potem i krwią; który odważnie dąży do celu; który myli się i wkrótce ponawia próbę; który w końcu zna triumf wielkiego osiągnięcia; i który jeśli nawet przegra, przynajmniej przegra dając z siebie wszystko, tak że jego miejsce nigdy nie będzie z tymi chłodnymi i tchórzliwymi duszami, które nie zaznały ni zwycięstwa ni porażki.”

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Theodore Roosevelt cytaty

„Ten młody człowiek nie jest dżentelmenem. Nie raczy wstać, kiedy dama wchodzi do pokoju.”

Theodore Roosevelt

o Winstonie Churchillu.
Źródło: Paul Johnson, Bohaterowie, wyd. Świat Książki, Warszawa, 2009, tłum. Anna i Jacek Maziarscy, s. 247

O książkach , O świecie , O pokoju

„Mogę być prezydentem Stanów Zjednoczonych albo mogę kontrolować Alicję. Obu tym rzeczom nie mogę podołać.”

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gdy przyjaciel poprosił, by bardziej kontrolował Alicję, swą córkę.

„Chociaż nie biorę udział w takich polowaniach, to gdyby odbyło się ono podczas mojego pobytu, mówiono by to samo i śmiano by się tak samo, jak w przypadku tego polowania w Missisipi, kiedy to związano niedźwiedzia. Oczywiście nie chciałem mieć z tym nic wspólnego, ale nie powstrzymało to prasy przed naigrywaniem się z sytuacji.”

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Źródło: Listy (ang. The Letters…), cz. 4, s. 1140.

„(…) moi uprzejmi gospodarze, pełni dobrych intencji, nalegali na połączenie polowania z piknikiem, co zawsze skutkuje klęską polowania i zazwyczaj także klęską pikniku.”

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negatywnie o urządzonym polowaniu.
Źródło: Listy (ang. The Letters…), cz. 3, s. 378.

„Uważam, że są bardzo krótkowzroczni, skoro nie rozumieją, że utrącenie jej oznacza wzmocnienie ruchu na rzecz upaństwowienia kolei.”

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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!”

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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.

O decyzjach , O sile

„Rezygnacja z aneksji Hawajów była zbrodnią przeciwko białej cywilizacji. Wszystkie wielkie rasy panujące były waleczne (…). Żadne pokojowe zwycięstwo nie może się równać z triumfem wojennym.”

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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.

O zwycięstwie

„Mówiąc między nami (…), z radością powitałbym niemal każdą wojnę, myślę bowiem, że ten kraj jej potrzebuje.”

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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.

Radość , O myślach , O myśleniu

„Moim zamiarem jest być skrajnie konserwatywnym, lecz w interesie samych korporacji i ponad wszystko w interesie kraju.”

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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

“Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves; and we can shirk neither. We have become a great nation, forced by the fact of its greatness into relations with the other nations of the earth, and we must behave as beseems a people with such responsibilities. Toward all other nations, large and small, our attitude must be one of cordial and sincere friendship. We must show not only in our words, but in our deeds, that we are earnestly desirous of securing their good will by acting toward them in a spirit of just and generous recognition of all their rights. But justice and generosity in a nation, as in an individual, count most when shown not by the weak but by the strong.”

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1900s, Inaugural Address (1905)

“If Congress alters the law and directs me to replace on the coins the sentence in question the direction will be immediately put into effect; but I very earnestly trust that the religious sentiment of the country, the sprit of reverence in this country, will prevent any such action being taken.”

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1900s, "In God we Trust" letter (1907)

“Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one.”

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Letter to Cecil Spring-Rice (12 March 1900)
1900s

“If the American people are not fit for popular government, and if they should of right be the servants and not the masters of those whom they themselves put in office, then Lincoln's work was wasted and the whole system of government upon which this great democratic republic rests is a failure.”

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

“Finally, it would be a masterstroke if those great powers honestly bent on peace would form a League of Peace, not only to keep the peace among themselves, but to prevent, by force if necessary, its being broken by others. The supreme difficulty in connection with developing the peace work of The Hague arises from the lack of any executive power, of any police power to enforce the decrees of the court. In any community of any size the authority of the courts rests upon actual or potential force: on the existence of a police, or on the knowledge that the able-bodied men of the country are both ready and willing to see that the decrees of judicial and legislative bodies are put into effect.”

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1910s, Nobel lecture (1910)

“Friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.”

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1910s, Address at Milwaukee, Wisconsin (1912)

“Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready.”

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Address in San Francisco, California (13 May 1903) http://www.trsite.org/content/pages/speaking-loudly
1900s

“To any nation that stands for human liberties, they have an Ally in the United States.”

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1900s, Address at Providence (1901)

“There are good people who, being discontented with present-day conditions, think that these conditions can be cured by a return to what they call the “principles of the fathers.” […] But to go back to the governmental theories of a hundred years ago would accomplish nothing whatever; for it was under the conditions of unrestricted individualism and freedom from Government interference, countenanced by those theories, that the trusts grew up, and private fortunes, enormous far beyond the deserts of the accumulators were gathered. […] It may be that, in the past development of our country, complete freedom from all restrictions, and the consequent unlimited encouragement and reward given to the most successful industrial leaders, played a part in which the beneﬁts outweighed the disadvantages. But nowadays such is not the case.”

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

“We know that self-government is difficult. We know that no people needs such high traits of character as that people which seeks to govern its affairs aright through the freely expressed will of the freemen who compose it. But we have faith that we shall not prove false to the memories of the men of the mighty past. They did their work, they left us the splendid heritage we now enjoy. We in our turn have an assured confidence that we shall be able to leave this heritage unwasted and enlarged to our children and our children's children. To do so we must show, not merely in great crises, but in the everyday affairs of life, the qualities of practical intelligence, of courage, of hardihood, and endurance, and above all the power of devotion to a lofty ideal, which made great the men who founded this Republic in the days of Washington, which made great the men who preserved this Republic in the days of Abraham Lincoln.”

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1900s, Inaugural Address (1905)

“What is the lesson to us to-day? Are we to go the way of the older civilizations? The immense increase in the area of civilized activity to-day, so that it is nearly coterminous with the world's surface; the immense increase in the multitudinous variety of its activities; the immense increase in the velocity of the world movement—are all these to mean merely that the crash will be all the more complete and terrible when it comes? We can not be certain that the answer will be in the negative; but of this we can be certain, that we shall not go down in ruin unless we deserve and earn our end. There is no necessity for us to fall; we can hew out our destiny for ourselves, if only we have the wit and the courage and the honesty.”

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1910s, The World Movement (1910)

“A typical vice of American politics — the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues, and the announcement of radical policies with much sound and fury, and at the same time with a cautious accompaniment of weasel phrases each of which sucks the meat out of the preceding statement.”

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"Platform Insincerity" in The Outlook, Vol. 101, No. 13 (27 July 1912), p. 660
1910s

“Moreover, every effort should be made under the law to expedite the proceedings of justice in the case of such an awful crime. But it cannot be necessary in order to accomplish this to deprive any citizen of those fundamental rights to be heard in his own defense which are so dear to us all and which lies at the root of our liberty. It certainly ought to be possible by the proper administration of the laws to secure swift vengeance upon the criminal; and the best and immediate efforts of all legislators, judges and citizens should be addressed to securing such reforms in our legal procedure as to leave no vestige of excuse for those misguided men who undertake to reap vengeance through violent methods.”

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

“The bosses of the Democratic party and the bosses of the Republican party alike have a closer grip than ever before on the party machines in the States and in the Nation. This crooked control of both the old parties by the beneficiaries of political and business privilege renders it hopeless to expect any far-reaching and fundamental service from either.”

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"Platform Insincerity" in The Outlook, Vol. 101, No. 13 (27 July 1912), p. 660
1910s

“We have a given problem to solve. If we undertake the solution, there is, of course, always danger that we may not solve it aright; but to refuse to undertake the solution simply renders it certain that we cannot possibly solve it aright.”

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Theodore Roosevelt The Strenuous Life

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

“It seems to me that the simple acceptance of this fundamental fact of American life, this acknowledgment that the law of work is the fundamental law of our being, will help us to start aright in facing not a few of the problems that confront us from without and from within. As regards internal affairs, it should teach us the prime need of remembering that, after all has been said and done, the chief factor in any man’s success or failure must be his own character—that is, the sum of his common sense, his courage, his virile energy and capacity. Nothing can take the place of this individual factor.”

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

“The corporate manager who achieves success by honest efficiency in giving the best service to the public should be favored because we all beneﬁt by his efficiency. […] he should be helped by the Government because his success is good for the National welfare. But a man who, grasps and holds business power by breaking the industrial efficiency of others, who wins success by methods which are against‘ the public interest and degrading to the public morals, should not be permitted to ‘ exercise such power. Instead of punishing him by a long and doubtful process of the law after the wrong has been com- mitted, there should be such effective Government regulation as to check the evil tendencies at the moment that they start do develop.”

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

“The collective power of the State can help; but it is the individual’s own power of self-help which is most important.”

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

“But we must be ready to face any temporary disaster - whether or not brought on by those who will war against us to the knife — if only through such disaster can we attain our goal.”

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

“The foreign-born population of this country must be an Americanized population. No other kind can fight the battles of America either in war or peace. It must talk the language of its native-born fellow-citizens; it must possess American citizenship and American ideals. It must stand firm by its oath of allegiance in word and deed and must show that in very fact it has renounced allegiance to every prince, potentate, or foreign government. It must be maintained on an American standard of living so as to prevent labor disturbances in important plants and at critical times. None of these objects can be secured as long as we have immigrant colonies, ghettos, and immigrant sections, and above all they cannot be assured so long as we consider the immigrant only as an industrial asset. The immigrant must not be allowed to drift or to be put at the mercy of the exploiter. Our object is not to imitate one of the older racial types, but to maintain a new American type and then to secure loyalty to this type. We cannot secure such loyalty unless we make this a country where men shall feel that they have justice and also where they shall feel that they are required to perform the duties imposed upon them.”

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1910s, Address to the Knights of Columbus (1915)
Kontekst: The foreign-born population of this country must be an Americanized population. No other kind can fight the battles of America either in war or peace. It must talk the language of its native-born fellow-citizens; it must possess American citizenship and American ideals. It must stand firm by its oath of allegiance in word and deed and must show that in very fact it has renounced allegiance to every prince, potentate, or foreign government. It must be maintained on an American standard of living so as to prevent labor disturbances in important plants and at critical times. None of these objects can be secured as long as we have immigrant colonies, ghettos, and immigrant sections, and above all they cannot be assured so long as we consider the immigrant only as an industrial asset. The immigrant must not be allowed to drift or to be put at the mercy of the exploiter. Our object is not to imitate one of the older racial types, but to maintain a new American type and then to secure loyalty to this type. We cannot secure such loyalty unless we make this a country where men shall feel that they have justice and also where they shall feel that they are required to perform the duties imposed upon them. The policy of 'Let alone' which we have hitherto pursued is thoroughly vicious from two standpoints. By this policy we have permitted the immigrants, and too often the native-born laborers as well, to suffer injustice. Moreover, by this policy we have failed to impress upon the immigrant and upon the native-born as well that they are expected to do justice as well as to receive justice, that they are expected to be heartily and actively and single-mindedly loyal to the flag no less than to benefit by living under it.

“Every man among us is more fit to meet the duties and responsibilities of citizenship because of the perils over which, in the past, the nation has triumphed; because of the blood and sweat and tears, the labor and the anguish, through which, in the days that have gone, our forefathers moved on to triumph.”

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Speech before the Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island (June 1897), reported in "Washington’s Forgotten Maxim", American Ideals (1926), vol. 13 of The Works of Theodore Roosevelt, national ed., chapter 12, p. 198
1890s