Theodore Roosevelt Quotes And Sayings

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“Magpies are birds that catch the eye at once from their bold black and white plumage and long tails; and they are very saucy and at the same time very cunning and shy.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck. “An epidemic in indiscriminate assault upon character does not good, but very great harm.” “There should be relentless exposure of and attack upon every evil practice, whether in politics, in business, or in social life. I hail as a benefactor every writer or speaker, every man who, on the platform, or in book, magazine or newspaper, with merciless severity makes such attack, provided always that he in his turn remembers that the attack is of use only if it is absolutely truthful”.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“My hat’s in the ring. The fight is on and I’m stripped to the buff.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“My home ranch lies on both sides of the Little Missouri, the nearest ranch man above me being about twelve, and the nearest below me about ten, miles distant.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“My home ranch-house stands on the river brink. From the low, long veranda, shaded by leafy cotton-woods, one looks across sand bars and shallows to a strip of meadowland, behind which rises a line of sheer cliffs and grassy plateaus. This veranda is a pleasant place in the summer evenings when a cool breeze stirs along the river and blows in the faces of the tired men, who loll back in their rocking-chairs (what true American does not enjoy a rocking-chair?), book in hand–though they do not often read the books, but rock gently to and fro, gazing sleepily out at the weird-looking buttes opposite, until their sharp outlines grow indistinct and purple in the after-glow of the sunset.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“No man can lead a public career really worth leading, no man can act with rugged independence in serious crises, nor strike at great abuses, nor afford to make powerful and unscrupulous foes, if he is himself vulnerable in his private character.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man’s permission when we require him to obey it. Obedience to the law is demanded as a right; not asked as a favor.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“No 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

“No man needs sympathy because he has to work. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“Nothing could be more lonely and nothing more beautiful than the view at nightfall across the prairies to these huge hill masses, when the lengthening shadows had at last merged into one and the faint after-glow of the red sunset filled the west.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“Now and then we hear the wilder voices of the wilderness, from animals that in the hours of darkness do not fear the neighborhood of man: the coyotes wail like dismal ventriloquists, or the silence may be broken by the snorting and stamping of a deer.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“Nowhere, not even at sea, does a man feel more lonely than when riding over the far-reaching, seemingly never-ending plains; and after a man has lived a little while on or near them, their very vastness and loneliness and their melancholy monotony have a strong fascination for him.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war, there is none which compares in importance with the great central task of leaving this land even a better land for our descendants than it is for us.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“One bleak March day,…a flock of snow-buntings came…Every few moments one of them would mount into the air, hovering about with quivering wings and warbling a loud, merry song with some very sweet notes. They were a most welcome little group of guests, and we were sorry when, after loitering around a day or two, they disappeared toward their breeding haunts.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called ”weasel words.” When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a ”weasel word” after another there is nothing left of the other.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“One of our sweetest, loudest songsters is the meadow-lark…the plains air seems to give it a voice, and it will perch on the top of a bush or tree and sing for hours in rich, bubbling tones.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual; and neither a nation nor an individual can surrender conscience to another’s keeping.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“Prairie-dogs are abundant…; they are in shape like little woodchucks, and are the most noisy and inquisitive animals imaginable. They are never found singly, but always in towns of several hundred inhabitants; and these towns are found in all kinds of places where the country is flat and treeless.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“Rattlesnakes are only too plentiful everywhere; along the river bottoms, in the broken, hilly ground, and on the prairies and the great desert wastes alike…If it can it will get out of the way, and only coils up in its attitude of defence when it believes that it is actually menaced.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“Rough board shelves hold a number of books, without which some of the evenings would be long indeed.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

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