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President Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt
- No other President ever enjoyed the Presidency as I did.
- To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not…
- I have always said I would not have been President had it not been for my experience in North Dakota.
- Every man, who parrots the cry of ‘stand by the President’ without adding the proviso ‘so far as he serves the Republic’ takes an attitude…
- No President has ever enjoyed himself as much as I?
- In the history of mankind many republics have risen, have flourished for a less or greater time, and then have fallen because their citizens lost…
- A healthy-minded boy should feel hearty contempt for the coward and even more hearty indignation for the boy who bullies girls or small boys, or…
- I never keep boys waiting. It's a hard trial for a boy to wait.
- This country has nothing to fear from the crooked man who fails. We put him in jail. It is the crooked man who succeeds who…
- Alone of human beings the good and wise mother stands on a plane of equal honor with the bravest soldier; for she has gladly gone…
- Freedom is not a gift which can be enjoyed save by those shown themselves worthy of it.
- No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community.
- 'Liar' is just as ugly a word as 'thief,' because it implies the presence of just as ugly a sin in one case as in…
- Our loyalty is due entirely to the United States. It is due to the President only and exactly to the degree in which he efficiently…
- A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the…
- To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.
- Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
- No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.
- To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result…
- The worst of all fears is the fear of living
- Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the…
- Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground.
- 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 his…
- Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.
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