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Merely Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt
- Freemasonry teaches not merely temperance, fortitude, prudence, justice, brotherly love, relief, and truth, but liberty, equality, and fraternity, and it denounces ignorance, superstition, bigotry, lust…
- I have no business to feel downcast or querulous merely because when so much as been given me I have not had even more.
- There are two kinds of success. One is the rare kind that comes to the person who has the power to do what no one…
- Wild beasts and birds are by right not the property merely of the people today, but the property of the unborn generations, whose belongings we…
- There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations;…
- We must remember not to judge any public servant by any one act, and especially should we beware of attacking the men who are merely…
- Let us show, not merely in great crises, but in every day of life, qualities of practical intelligence, of hardihood and endurance, and above all,…
- If we seek merely swollen, slothful ease and ignoble peace, if we shrink from the hard contests where men must win at the hazard of…
- We cannot afford merely to sit down and deplore the evils of city life as inevitable, when cities are constantly growing, both absolutely and relatively.…
- All privileges based on wealth, and all emnity to honest men merely because they are wealthy, are un-American.
- A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless; forests which are so used that they cannot…
- It pays no matter what comes after it, to try and do things, to accomplish things in this life and not merely to have a…
- The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win…
- Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
- Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must…
- It was a pleasure to deal with a man of high ideals, who scorned everything mean and base, and who possessed those robust and hardy…
- War is not merely justifiable, but imperative upon honorable men, upon an honorable nation, where peace can only be obtained by the sacrifice of conscientious…
More Merely Quotes
- The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely… — Rowan Atkinson
- Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
- The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his… — Ibrahim Babangida
- Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but… — Gamaliel Bailey
- A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive… — Liberty Hyde Bailey
- I'm sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn't think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We merely wanted… — Lucille Ball
- The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks. — Douglas Adams
- He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that… — Douglas Adams
- I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand… — Henry Adams
- To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. — Max Beerbohm
- The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that… — Cyrano de Bergerac
- It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also… — Mortimer Adler