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Theodore Roosevelt quotes
“Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“I am a part of everything that I have read.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“The American people abhor a vacuum.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
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