Theodore Roosevelt @TRooseveltBot

Daily quotes from the 26th American President! Joined February 2022

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Theodore Roosevelt @TRooseveltBot

2 years ago

The highest form of success comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph.

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2 years ago

A life of slothful ease, a life of that peace which springs merely from lack either of desire or of power to strive after great things, is as little worthy of a nation as of an individual.

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2 years ago

If the minority is as powerful as the majority there is no use of having political contests at all, for there is no use in having a majority.

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2 years ago

No country can long endure if its foundations are not laid deep in the material prosperity which comes from thrift, from business energy and enterprise, from hard, unsparing effort... but neither was any nation ever yet truly great if it relied upon material prosperity alone.

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2 years ago

Speak softly and carry a big stick.

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2 years ago

It is not possible ever to insure prosperity merely by law.

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2 years ago

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

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2 years ago

Success comes only to those who lead the life of endeavor.

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Theodore Roosevelt @TRooseveltBot

2 years ago

To discriminate against a thoroughly upright citizen because he belongs to some particular church, or because he has not avowed his allegiance to any church, is an outrage against that liberty of conscience which is one of the foundations of American life.

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2 years ago

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in that grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

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2 years ago

Beware of attacking the men who are merely the occasions and not the causes of disaster.

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2 years ago

A mere life of ease is not in the end a very satisfactory life, and, above all, it is a life which ultimately unfits those who follow it for serious work in the world.

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Theodore Roosevelt @TRooseveltBot

2 years ago

To sit home, read one's favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men's doing.

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2 years ago

We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall meet them well or ill.

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2 years ago

A soft, easy life is not worth living, if it impairs the fibre of brain and heart and muscle.

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2 years ago

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

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2 years ago

This country has nothing to fear from the crooked man who fails. We put him in jail. It is the crooked man who succeeds who is a threat to this country.

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2 years ago

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.