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There is a point, of course, where a man must take the isolated peak and break with all his associates for clear principle; but until that time comes he must work, if he would be of use, with men as they are. As long as

There is a point, of course, where a man must take the isolated peak and break with all his associates for clear principle; but until that time comes he must work, if he would be of use, with men as they are. As long as the good in them overbalances the evil, let him work with them for the best that can be obtained.

Theodore Roosevelt
Time, Men, Long

Where a trust becomes a monopoly the state has an immediate right to interfere.

Theodore Roosevelt
States, Monopoly, Interfere
Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.123, Cornell University Press

The wolf is the arch type of ravin, the beast of waste and desolation.

Theodore Roosevelt
Arches, Waste, Beast
Theodore Roosevelt (2016). “Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches”, p.113, Sheba Blake Publishing

In a crisis, the man worth his salt is the man who meets the needs of the situation in whatever way is necessary.

Theodore Roosevelt
Men, Needs, Way
Theodore Roosevelt (1899). “The Rough Riders: An Autobiography”, p.466, Library of America

We cannot do great deeds unless we're willing to do the small things that make up the sum of greatness.

Theodore Roosevelt
Motivational, Basketball, Greatness

I do not care a rap as to who gets credit for the work, provided the work is done.

Theodore Roosevelt
Rap, Care, Credit

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; even a Democrat like myself must admit this.

Theodore Roosevelt
War, Government, Leader
Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.166, Cornell University Press

Perhaps the most incapable Executive that ever filled the presidential chair...it would be difficult to imagine a man less fit to guide the state with honor and safety through the stormy times that marked the opening of the present century.

Theodore Roosevelt
Men, Safety, Presidential
Theodore Roosevelt (1987). “The Naval War of 1812, Or, The History of the United States Navy During the Last War with Great Britain: To which is Appended an Account of the Battle of New Orleans”, Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press

Ours is a government of liberty by, through, and under the law. A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.

Theodore Roosevelt
Government, Law, History
Theodore Roosevelt (1955). “Theodore Roosevelt's America: Selections from the Writings of the Oyster Bay Naturalist”

The words of the Declaration of Independence, as given effect by Washington...are to be accepted as real, and not as empty phrases...that in very truth this is a government by the people themselves, that the Constitution is theirs, that the courts are theirs, that all the government agents and agencies are theirs... It is for the people themselves finally to decide all questions of public policy and to have their decision made effective...We here, in America, hold in our hands the hope of the world.

Theodore Roosevelt
Real, Agency, Government

To hell with the Constitution when people want coal!

Theodore Roosevelt
People, Coal, Want

Optimism is a good characteristic, but if carried to an excess, it becomes foolishness. We are prone to speak of the resources of this country as inexhaustible; this is not so.

Theodore Roosevelt
Country, Optimism, Excess
Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

There were all kinds of things I was afraid of at first, ranging from grizzly bears to 'mean' horses and gun-fighters; but by acting as if I was not afraid I gradually ceased to be afraid.

Theodore Roosevelt
Horse, Fear, Mean
Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.19, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

I do not believe that any man can adequately appreciate the world of to-day unless he has some knowledge of -- a little more than a slight knowledge, some feeling for and of -- the history of the world of the past.

Theodore Roosevelt
Believe, Past, Men
Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

It is better to be faithful than famous.

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

Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual; and neither a nation nor an individual can surrender conscience to another's keeping.

Theodore Roosevelt
Peace, Surrender, Individual
Theodore Roosevelt (2005). “Fear God and Take Your Own Part”, p.389, Cosimo, Inc.

No people on earth have more cause to be thankful than ours, and this is said reverently, in no spirit of boastfulness in our own strength, but with the gratitude to the Giver of good who has blessed us.

Theodore Roosevelt
Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Religious
Theodore Roosevelt (1920). “Roosevelt's Writings: Selections from the Writings of Theodore Roosevelt”

I have no business to feel downcast or querulous merely because when so much as been given me I have not had even more.

Theodore Roosevelt
Grieving, Given, Feels
Theodore Roosevelt (1951). “Letters of Theodore Roosevelt: The square deal, 1901-1905”

I am a man who believes with all fervor and intensity in moderate progress. Too often men who believe in moderation believe in it only moderately and tepidly and leave fervor to the extremists of the two sides - the extremists of reaction and the extremists of progress. Washington, Lincoln . . . are men who, to my mind, stand as the types of what wide, progressive leadership should be.

Theodore Roosevelt
Believe, Men, Two Sides
Theodore Roosevelt (1954). “The days of Armageddon, 1900-1914”

There are dreadful moments when death comes very near those we love, even if for the time being it passes by. But life is a great adventure, and the worst of all fears is the fear of living.

Theodore Roosevelt
Adventure, Life Is, Moments
Theodore Roosevelt (2013). “Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt”, p.268, Simon and Schuster

Freemasonry must stand upon the Rock of Truth, religion, political, social, and economic. Nothing is so worthy of its care as freedom in all its aspects. "Free" is the most vital part of Freemasonry. It means freedom of thought and expression, freedom of spiritual and religious ideals, freedom from oppression, freedom from ignorance, superstition, vice and bigotry, freedom to acquire and possess property, to go and come at pleasure, and to rise or fall according to will of ability.

Theodore Roosevelt
Spiritual, Religious, Fall

We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort; the man who never wrongs his neighbor, who is prompt to help a friend, but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life.

Theodore Roosevelt
Winning, Men, Effort
Theodore Roosevelt (1920). “Roosevelt's Writings: Selections from the Writings of Theodore Roosevelt”

The government is us; WE are the government, you and I."- Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt
Government, Theodore

We can just as little afford to follow the doctrinaires of an extreme individualism as the doctrinaires of an extreme socialism.

Theodore Roosevelt
Wisdom, Politics, Littles
Citizenship in a Republic - The Man in the Arena, delivered 23 April 1910, Le Sorbonne, University of Paris

There is not in all America a more dangerous trait than the deification of mere smartness unaccompanied by any sense of moral responsibility.

Theodore Roosevelt
Responsibility, America, Moral
Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.84, Cornell University Press