01c. 1888 ADA man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.Theodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
02c. 1888 ADThere has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.Theodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
03c. 1888 ADPeople ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.Theodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
06c. 1888 ADGreat thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.Theodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
07c. 1888 ADThe boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.Theodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
08c. 1888 ADRhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.Theodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
09c. 1888 ADNo man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.Theodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
10c. 1888 ADIf you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.Theodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
11c. 1888 ADThe most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.Theodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
12c. 1888 ADA typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.Theodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
13c. 1888 ADGet action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.Theodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
15c. 1888 ADBehind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.Theodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
16c. 1888 ADTo educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.Theodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
17c. 1888 ADA man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.Theodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
19c. 1888 ADWars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.Theodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
20c. 1888 ADFreedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.Theodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
21c. 1888 ADOrder without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.Theodore Roosevelt / quote ↗
