No triumph of peace is quite so great as the supreme triumphs of war. — 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
The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages. — 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 good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace. — 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
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
“I had always felt that if there were a serious war I wished to be in a position to explain to my… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A really great people, proud and high spirited, would face all the disasters of war rather than purchase that base prosperity which… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
...to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We must diligently strive to make our young men decent, God-fearing, law-abiding, honor-loving, justice-doing and also fearless and strong. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Profanity is the parlance of the fool. Why curse when there is such a magnificent language with which to discourse? — 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
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
... looked at from the standpoint of the ultimate result, there was little real difference to the Indian whether the land was… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It may be that at some time in the dim future of the race the need for war will vanish: but that… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln - the spirit incarnate of those who won victory in the Civil War - was the true representative of this… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
And it is through strife and the readiness for strife that a man or a nation must win greatness. So, let the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
... the Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war, and the failure to act against Turkey is to condone it… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Unjust war is to be abhorred; but woe to the nation that does not make ready to hold its own in time… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In the great battle of life, no brilliancy of intellect, no perfection of bodily development, will count when weighed in the balance… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I abhor unjust war. I abhor injustice and bullying by the strong at the expense of the weak, whether among nations or… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It [the Civil War] was a heroic struggle; and, as is inevitable with all such struggles, it had also a dark and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages, though it is apt to be also the most terrible… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The great body of our citizens shoot less as times goes on. We should encourage rifle practice among schoolboys, and indeed among… — 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
The foes from whom we pray to be delivered are our own passions, appetites, and follies; and against these there is always… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The sons of all of us will pay in the future if we of the present do not do justice in the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
After the war, and until the day of his death, his position on almost every public question was either mischievous or ridiculous,… — 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
Life brings sorrows and joys alike. It is what a man does with them - not what they do to him -… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The wise and honorable and Christian thing to do is to treat each black man and each white man (or any person)… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
War with evil; but show no spirit of malignity toward the man who may be responsible for the evil. Put it out… — 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
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