More Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt
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.
There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
Do Something Now. If not you, who? If not here, where? If not now, when?
The one absolute certain way to bring this nation to ruin ... would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
Patriotism 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. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.
The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
There is but one answer to terrorism and it is best delivered with a Winchester rifle.
Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready.
