Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

American - President | October 27, 1858 - January 6, 1919

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Theodore Roosevelt

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The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

Theodore Roosevelt

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Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.

Theodore Roosevelt

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It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.

Theodore Roosevelt

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Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.

Theodore Roosevelt

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If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

Theodore Roosevelt

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Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

Theodore Roosevelt

LiveMenWithoutUpGoingHigher

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

Theodore Roosevelt

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The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.

Theodore Roosevelt

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Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

Theodore Roosevelt

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