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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 tyranny and

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 tyranny and despotism.

Theodore Roosevelt
Ignorance, Justice, Lust

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Theodore Roosevelt
Attitude, Men, Oysters

Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.

Theodore Roosevelt
Men, Rivers, Age
Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.128, Cornell University Press

The labor unions shall have a square deal, and the corporations shall have a square deal, and in addition, all private citizens shall have a square deal.

Theodore Roosevelt
Squares, Government, Citizens
Theodore Roosevelt “Letters: The Square Deal, 1901-1905”

From its origin to the present hour, in all its vicissitudes, Masonry has been the steady unwearing friend of man.

Theodore Roosevelt
Men, Masonic, Hours

If a strong man has not in him the lift toward lofty things, his strength makes him only a curse to himself and his neighbor.

Theodore Roosevelt
Leadership, Strong, Men
Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “Works: The strenuous life”

There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains.

Theodore Roosevelt
Political, Corporations, Remains
Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.174, Cornell University Press

A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy.

Theodore Roosevelt
Democracy, Progressive, Cease
Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.40, Taylor Trade Publications

When I say I believe in a square deal i do not mean to give every man the best hand. If the cards do not come to any man, or if they do come, and he has not got the power to play them, that is his affair. All I mean is that there shall be no crookedness in the dealing.

Theodore Roosevelt
Believe, Mean, Men

I have often thought that unselfishness combined in one word more of the teachings of the Bible than any other in the language.

Theodore Roosevelt
Teaching, Language, One Word

The great corporations which we have grown to speak of rather loosely as trusts are the creatures of the State, and the State not only has the right to control them, but it is duty bound to control them wherever the need of such control is shown.

Theodore Roosevelt
Needs, Corporations, Speak
Theodore Roosevelt (1970). “Presidential Addresses and State Papers of Theodore Roosevelt”

It is not only highly desirable but necessary that there should be legislation which shall carefully shield the interests of wage-workers, and which shall discriminate in favor of the honest and humane employer by removing the disadvantage under which he stands when compared with unscrupulous competitors who have no conscience and will do right only under fear of punishment.

Theodore Roosevelt
Punishment, Favors, Shields
Theodore Roosevelt (2009). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.131, Courier Corporation

Weasel words from mollycoddles will never do when the day demands prophetic clarity from greathearts. Manly men must emerge for this hour of trial.

Theodore Roosevelt
Men, Trials, Demand

So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt
Courage, Badass, Military
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

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

Theodore Roosevelt
Work, Men, Doe
Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.16, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.

Theodore Roosevelt
Success, Courage, Badass
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

Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.

Theodore Roosevelt
History, Joy, Fit
Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.44, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

The farther one gets into the wilderness, the greater is the attraction of its lonely freedom.

Theodore Roosevelt
Lonely, Wilderness, Greater
Theodore Roosevelt (1990). “Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter”, p.204, Stackpole Books

From reading of the people I admired - ranging from the soldiers of Valley Forge and Morgan's riflemen to my Southern forefathers and kinfolk - I felt a great admiration for men who were fearless and who could hold their own in the world. And I had a great desire to be like them.

Theodore Roosevelt
War, Reading, Men

Work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt
Work, Day Jobs, Labor Day
Theodore Roosevelt (1967). “Writings”

The true Christians are the true citizens, lofty of purpose, resolute in endeavor, ready for a hero's deeds, but never looking down on their task because it is cast in the day of small things; scornful of baseness, awake to their own duties as well as to their rights, following the higher law with reverence, and in this world doing all that in their power lies, so that when death comes they may feel that humanity is in some degree better because they lived.

Theodore Roosevelt
Christian, Lying, Hero

A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace.

Theodore Roosevelt
Military, War, Navy
Theodore Roosevelt (1916). “Fear God and Take Your Own Part”, New York : George H. Doran

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 have no right to squander.

Theodore Roosevelt
People, Bird, Generations
Theodore Roosevelt (2014). “Forgotten Tales and Vanished Trails”, p.239, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

What such a man needs is not courage but nerve control, cool headedness. This he can get only by practice.

Theodore Roosevelt
Adversity, Men, Practice
Theodore Roosevelt (1899). “The Rough Riders: An Autobiography”, p.286, Library of America

We should not forget that it will be just as important to our descendants to be prosperous in their time as it is to us to be prosperous in our time.

Theodore Roosevelt
Important, Forget, Prosperity
Theodore Roosevelt (1952). “The Big Stick, 1905-1909”