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Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.

Theodore Roosevelt
Country, Peace, War
Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.42, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

There is but one answer to terrorism and it is best delivered with a Winchester rifle.

Theodore Roosevelt
Rifles, Answers, Terrorism

This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.

Theodore Roosevelt
Inspiring, Country, 4th Of July
Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.63, Taylor Trade Publications

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; . . . who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.

Theodore Roosevelt
Motivational, Courage, Strong
Address at the Sorbonne, Paris, 23 Apr. 1910. Richard M. Nixon quoted this passage in his address to the nation announcing his decision to resign the presidency, 8 Aug. 1974. See Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 2; Theodore Roosevelt 5

Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.

Theodore Roosevelt
Bullying, Mean, Knowing
Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.39, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Theodore Roosevelt
Inspirational, Motivational, Success
Theodore Roosevelt (2006). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt - Volume”, p.17, Cosimo, Inc.

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 degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.

Theodore Roosevelt
Country, Truth, Mean
Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.42, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

What a man does for himself, dies with him. What a man does for his community lives long after he's gone.

Theodore Roosevelt
Men, Long, Community

There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.

Theodore Roosevelt
Loyalty, Men, People
"Teddy Roosevelt's Immigration Speech Holds True Today" by Barbara Wamboldt, www.thewhig.com. July 07, 2010.

Nothing worth having was ever achieved without effort.

Theodore Roosevelt
Moving, Moving Forward, Fitness Motivational
Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.60, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

Theodore Roosevelt
Inspirational, Funny, Life
Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.4, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

The one absolute certain way to bring this nation to ruin ... would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

Theodore Roosevelt
Equality, Would Be, Way

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of today.

Theodore Roosevelt
Responsibility, Government, America

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

Theodore Roosevelt
Inspirational, Motivational, Change
Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.4, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

Theodore Roosevelt
Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership
Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.5, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

I believe that the next half century will determine if we will advance the cause of Christian civilization or revert to the horrors of brutal paganism.

Theodore Roosevelt
Bible, God, Christian

The Constitution was made for the people and not the people for the Constitution.

Theodore Roosevelt
People, Constitution, Made

Show me a man who makes no mistakes, and I will show you a man who doesn't do things.

Theodore Roosevelt
Mistake, Men, Show Me

Do Something Now. If not you, who? If not here, where? If not now, when?

Theodore Roosevelt
Ifs

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Theodore Roosevelt
Leadership, Education, Business

Life is a great adventure…accept it in such a spirit.

Theodore Roosevelt
Adventure, Spirit, Life Is

To announce there must be no criticism of the president or that we are to stand with the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

Theodore Roosevelt
Criticism, President, Unpatriotic
Source: abcnews.go.com

The chief factor in any man's success or failure must be his own character.

Theodore Roosevelt
Success, Character, Men
Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.130, Courier Corporation

He who makes no mistakes makes no progress.

Theodore Roosevelt
Leadership, Mistake, Progress

There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100% Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else

Theodore Roosevelt
Country, Fifty, Rooms
Speech in Saratoga, 19 July 1918, in Roosevelt Policy (1919) vol. 3, p. 1079