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The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages.

The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages.

Theodore Roosevelt
War, Savages, Siberia
Theodore Roosevelt (1894). “The Winning of the West”, p.45, U of Nebraska Press

I dream of men who take the next step instead of worrying about the next thousand steps.

Theodore Roosevelt
Dream, Men, Worry

If there is one tendency of the day which more than any other is unhealthy and undesirable, it is the tendency to deify mere "smartness," unaccompanied by a sense of moral accountability. We shall never make our republic what it should be until as a people we thoroughly understand and put in practice the doctrine that success is abhorrent if attained by the sacrifice of the fundamental principles of morality.

Theodore Roosevelt
Sacrifice, Practice, People
Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.20, Courier Corporation

The highest form of success comes to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship or from bitter toil, and who, out of these, wins the splendid ultimate triumph.

Theodore Roosevelt
Winning, Men, Triumph
Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.1, Courier Corporation

I wish to say seriously to all the daily newspapers, to the Republicans, the Democrat, and Socialist parties, that they cannot, month in month out and year in and year out, make the kind of untruthful, of bitter assault that they have made and not expect that brutal, violent natures, or brutal and violent characters, especially when the brutality is accompanied by a not very strong mind; they cannot expect that such natures will be unaffected by it.

Theodore Roosevelt
Strong, Character, Media
"'It Takes More Than That to Kill a Bull Moose': The Leader and The Cause". Theodore Roosevelt's address at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, given a few minutes after getting shot by some anarchist, www.businessinsider.com. October 14, 1912.

... the Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war, and the failure to act against Turkey is to condone it ... the failure to deal radically with the Turkish horror means that all talk of guaranteeing the future peace of the world is mischievous nonsense.

Theodore Roosevelt
War, Mean, Turkeys
Theodore Roosevelt (1954). “Letters: The days of Armageddon, 1909-1914”

We shall make mistakes; and if we let these mistakes frighten us from our work we shall show ourselves weaklings.

Theodore Roosevelt
Mistake, Making Mistakes, Shows
Theodore Roosevelt (2009). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.136, Courier Corporation

The longer I live the more I think of the quality of fortitude... men who fall, pick themselves up and stumble on, fall again, and are trying to get back up when they die.

Theodore Roosevelt
Fall, Men, Thinking

I don't go so far as to think that the only good Indians are dead Indians, but I believe nine out of ten are, and I shouldn't like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth.

Theodore Roosevelt
Believe, Thinking, Politics
Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

I wish that all Americans would realize that American politics is world politics.

Theodore Roosevelt
Wish, World, Realizing

Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.

Theodore Roosevelt
Law, Favors, Obedience
Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.75, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Death by violence, death by cold, death by starvation - they are the normal endings of the stately creatures of the wilderness. The sentimentalists who prattle about the peaceful life of nature do not realize its utter mercilessness.

Theodore Roosevelt
Peaceful, Violence, Normal
Theodore Roosevelt, H. W. Brands (2001). “African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-naturalist”, p.240, Rowman & Littlefield

I enter a most earnest plea that in our hurried and rather bustling life of today we do not lose the hold that our forefathers had on the Bible. I wish to see the Bible study as much a matter of course in the secular colleges as in the seminary. No educated man can afford to be ignorant of the Bible, and no uneducated man can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.

Theodore Roosevelt
Bible, College, Men

There is apt to be a lunatic fringe among the votaries of any forward movement.

Theodore Roosevelt
Movement, Forward Movement, Fringe
Theodore Roosevelt (2006). “History as Literature and Other Essays”, p.305, Cosimo, Inc.

If a man continually blusters, if he lacks civility, a big stick will not save him from trouble, and neither will speaking softly avail, if back of the softness there does not lie strength, power.

Theodore Roosevelt
Lying, Men, Doe
Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.133, Courier Corporation

There is superstition in science quite as much as there is superstition in theology, and it is all the more dangerous because those suffering from it are profoundly convinced that they are freeing themselves from all superstition.

Theodore Roosevelt
Suffering, Politics, Superstitions
Theodore Roosevelt (2006). “History as Literature and Other Essays”, p.247, Cosimo, Inc.

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, the power of devotion to a lofty ideal.

Theodore Roosevelt
Life, Power, Quality

In a civilized and cultivated country, wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen.

Theodore Roosevelt
Country, Hunting, Animal
THEODORE ROOSEVELT (2015). “The Deer Family”, p.81, Loose Cannon

I highly venerate the Masonic Institution, under the fullest persuasion that, when its principles are acknowledged and its laws and precepts obeyed, it comes nearest to the Christian religion, in its moral effects and influence, of any institution with which I am acquainted.

Theodore Roosevelt
Christian, Law, Principles

In every community there are little knots of fantastic extremists who loudly proclaim that they are striving for righteousness, and who, in reality, do their feeble best for unrighteousness. Just as the upright politician should hold in peculiar scorn the man who makes the name of politician a reproach and a shame, so the genuine reformer should realize that the cause he champions is especially jeopardized by the mock reformer who does what he can to make reform a laughingstock among decent men.

Theodore Roosevelt
Reality, Men, Names
Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.22, Courier Corporation

No nation can be really great unless it is great in peace, in industry, integrity, honesty. Skilled intelligence in civic affairs and industrial enterprises alike; the special ability of the artist, the man of letters, the man of science, and the man of business; the rigid determination to wrong no man, and to stand for righteousness-all these are necessary in a great nation.

Theodore Roosevelt
Determination, Honesty, Integrity
Theodore Roosevelt (1897). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt: American ideals. Administration-Civil service”

Black care rarely sits behind the rider whose pace is fast enough.

Theodore Roosevelt
Black, Pace, Care

The great man is always the man of mighty effort.

Theodore Roosevelt
Men, Effort, Training
Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.98, Courier Corporation

I do. That is character!

Theodore Roosevelt
Inspirational, Character

In doing your work in the great world, it is a safe plan to follow a rule I once heard on the football field: Don't flinch, don't fall; hit the line hard.

Theodore Roosevelt
Football, Fall, World