No triumph of peace is quite so great as the supreme triumphs of war. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“If I must choose between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness.” — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If I have to choose between peace and righteousness, I'll choose righteousness. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is only the warlike power of a civilized people that can give peace to the world. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A just war is in the long run far better for a man's soul than the most prosperous peace — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We wish peace, but we wish the peace of justice, the peace of righteousness. We wish it because we think it is… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We sincerely and earnestly believe in peace; but if peace and justice conflict, we scorn the man who would not stand for… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Great corporations exist only because they are created and safeguarded by our institutions; and it is therefore our right and duty to… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“No man in public position can, under penalty of forfeiting the right to the respect of those whose regard he most values,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
War is not merely justifiable, but imperative upon honorable men, upon an honorable nation, where peace can only be obtained by the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Every expansion of civilization makes for peace. In other words, every expansion of a great civilized power means a victory for law,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort; the man who never wrongs… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Among the wise and high-minded people who in self-respecting and genuine fashion strive earnestly for peace, there are the foolish fanatics always… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If we seek merely swollen, slothful ease and ignoble peace, if we shrink from the hard contests where men must win at… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of effort, labor… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No nation can be really great unless it is great in peace, in industry, integrity, honesty. Skilled intelligence in civic affairs and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Love of peace is common among weak, short-sighted, timid, and lazy persons; and on the other hand courage is found among many… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life; the life of toil and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The forces that tend for evil are great and terrible, but the forces of truth and love and courage and honesty and generosity and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is a great mistake to think that the extremist is a better man than the moderate. Usually the difference is not that he… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I am a strong individualist by personal habit, inheritance, and conviction; but it is a mere matter of common sense to recognize that the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Alone of human beings the good and wise mother stands on a plane of equal honor with the bravest soldier; for she has gladly… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The greatest privilege and greatest duty for any man is to be happily married, and no other form of success or service, for either… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
