01c. 1888 ADPatriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official.Theodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
02c. 1888 ADPatriotism,” said Theodore Roosevelt, “means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President or any other public official save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. … Every man,” said President Roosevelt, “who parrots the cry of ‘stand by the President’ without adding the proviso ‘so far as he serves the Republic’ takes an attitude as essentially unmanly as that of any Stuart royalist who championed the doctrine that the King could do no wrong. No self-respecting and intelligent free man could take such an attitude.Theodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
03c. 1888 AD...the more I see the better satisfied I am that I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.Theodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
04c. 1888 ADI ended my statement to the colored soldiers by saying: "Now, I shall be very sorry to hurt you, and you don't know whether or not I will keep my word, but my men can tell you that I always do;" whereupon my cow-punchers, hunters, and miners solemnly nodded their heads and commented in chorus, exactly as if in a comic opera, "He always does; he always does!Theodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
05c. 1888 ADWe 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.Theodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
06c. 1888 ADThere is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and then shame upon him who will not stretch out the helping hand to his brother.Theodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
07c. 1888 ADI can do one of two things. I can be President of the United States or I can control Alice Roosevelt. (His 19-year-old daughter.) I cannot possibly do both.Theodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
08c. 1888 ADIt is never worth while to absolutely exhaust one's self or to take big chances unless for an adequate object.Theodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
10c. 1888 ADWe despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.Theodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
11c. 1888 ADThe reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.Theodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
12c. 1888 ADBooks are almost as individual as friends. There is no earthly use in laying down general laws about them. Some meet the needs of one person, and some of another; and each person should beware of the booklover’s besetting sin, of what Mr. Edgar Allan Poe calls ‘the mad pride of intellectuality,’ taking the shape of arrogant pity for the man who does not like the same kind of books.Theodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
13c. 1888 ADWomen 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.Theodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
14c. 1888 ADNow and then I am asked as to ‘what books a statesman should read,’ and my answer is, poetry and novels – including short stories under the head of novels.Theodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
15c. 1888 ADWe cordially believe in the rights of property. We think that normally and in the long run the rights of humanity, coincide with the rights of property... But we feel that if in exceptional cases there is any conflict between the rights of property and the rights of man, then we must stand for the rights of man.Theodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
18c. 1888 ADWe demand that big business give people a square deal in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honesdy endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.Theodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
19c. 1888 ADThe credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood who strives valiantly who errs and comes short again and again who knows the great enthusiasms the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.Theodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
20c. 1888 ADNo man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.Theodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
21c. 1888 ADI wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life.Theodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
22c. 1888 ADMy hat's in the ring. The fight is one and I'm stripped to the buff.Theodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
24c. 1888 ADIt is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks.Theodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
