Liberalism Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt

8 Liberalism quotes by Theodore Roosevelt

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Theodore Roosevelt’s eight short statements on liberalism echo his energetic spirit, offering compact wisdom from a historic voice.

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The best lesson that any people can learn is that there is no patent cure-all which will make the body politic perfect,…

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The good citizen will demand liberty for himself, and as a matter of pride he will see to it that others receive…

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We can just as little afford to follow the doctrinaires of an extreme individualism as the doctrinaires of an extreme socialism.

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What counts in a man or in a nation is not what the man or the nation can do, but what he…

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Much of the discussion about socialism and individualism is entirely pointless, because of failure to agree on terminology.

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There is superstition in science quite as much as there is superstition in theology, and it is all the more dangerous because…

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Just as little can we afford to follow the doctrinaires of an impossible - and incidentally of a highly undesirable - social…

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Those who advocate total lack of regulation, those who advocate lawlessness in the business world, themselves give the strongest impulse to what…

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No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

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There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains.

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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

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Argument weak; speak loudly!

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Let the watchwords of all our people be the old familiar watchwords of honesty, decency, fair-dealing, and commonsense."... "We must treat each man on…

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The forces that tend for evil are great and terrible, but the forces of truth and love and courage and honesty and generosity and…

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Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.

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Conservation and rural-life policies are really two sides of the same policy; and down at the bottom this policy rests upon the fundamental law…

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It is a great mistake to think that the extremist is a better man than the moderate. Usually the difference is not that he…

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I am a strong individualist by personal habit, inheritance, and conviction; but it is a mere matter of common sense to recognize that the…

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Alone of human beings the good and wise mother stands on a plane of equal honor with the bravest soldier; for she has gladly…

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The greatest privilege and greatest duty for any man is to be happily married, and no other form of success or service, for either…

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For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their…

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