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The object of government is the welfare of the people.

The object of government is the welfare of the people.

Theodore Roosevelt
Government, People, Welfare
Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.59, Taylor Trade Publications

When money comes in at the gate, sport flies out at the window.

Theodore Roosevelt
Sports, Window, Gates

I never keep boys waiting. It's a hard trial for a boy to wait.

Theodore Roosevelt
Boys, Waiting, President
Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.24, Taylor Trade Publications

Fertile plains, every foot of them tilled, are of the first necessity; but great natural playgrounds of mountain, forest, cliff-walled lake, and brawling brook are also necessary to the full and many-sided development of a fine race.

Theodore Roosevelt
Lakes, Race, Feet
Theodore Roosevelt (1926). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt”

I want to see you shoot the way you shout.

Theodore Roosevelt
Soldier, Want, Way
Speech at the meeting of the Mayor's Committee on National Defense, Madison Square, October, 1917.

The hardest lessons to learn are those that are the most obvious.

Theodore Roosevelt
Lessons, Obvious, Hardest

Councils of War never fight.

Theodore Roosevelt
Peace, War, Fighting
Theodore Roosevelt (2001). “The Selected Letters of Theodore Roosevelt”, Cooper Square Pub

I feel most emphatically that we should not turn into shingles a tree which was old when the first Egyptian conqueror penetrated to the valley of the Euphrates.

Theodore Roosevelt
Tree, Valleys, Firsts
Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.196, Cornell University Press

Property belongs to man and not man to property.

Theodore Roosevelt
Men, Property
Address at the Sorbonne, Paris, 23 Apr. 1910

In popular government results worth while can only be achieved by men who combine worthy ideals with practical good sense.

Theodore Roosevelt
Men, History, Results
Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.96, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

There is no moral difference between gambling at cards or in lotteries or on the race track and gambling in the stock market. One method is just pernicious to the body politic as the other kind.

Theodore Roosevelt
Gambling, Race, Differences
United States. President (1901-1909 : Roosevelt), Theodore Roosevelt (1908). “The Roosevelt Policy: Speeches, Letters and State Papers, Relating to Corporate Wealth and Closely Allied Topics, of Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States”

The chase is among the best of all national pastimes; it cultivates that vigorous manliness for the lack of which in a nation, as in an individual, the possession of no other qualities can possibly atone.

Theodore Roosevelt
Quality, Individual, Possession
Theodore Roosevelt (2000). “Hunting Trips of a Ranchman and The Wilderness Hunter”, p.14, Modern Library

After nightfall the face of the country seems to alter marvelously, and the clear moonlight only intensifies the change. The river gleams like running quicksilver, and the moonbeams play over the grassy stretches of the plateaus...The Bad Lands seem to be stranger and wilder than ever, the silvery rays turning the country into a kind of grim fairyland.

Theodore Roosevelt
Running, Country, Land

There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm. There is a delight in the hardy life of the open... Apart from this, yet mingled with it, is the strong attraction of the silent places, of the large tropic moons, and the splendor of the new stars; where the wanderer sees the awful glory of sunrise and sunset in the wide waste spaces of the earth, unworn of man, and changed only by the slow change of the ages through time everlasting.

Theodore Roosevelt
Strong, Stars, Sunset

Such an experiment without actual conditions of war to support it is a foolish waste of time. . . . I once saw a man kill a lion with a 30-30 caliber rifle under certain conditions, but that doesn't mean that a 30-30 rifle is a lion gun.

Theodore Roosevelt
War, Mean, Men

Nothing could be more lonely and nothing more beautiful than the view at nightfall across the prairies to these huge hill masses, when the lengthening shadows had at last merged into one and the faint after-glow of the red sunset filled the west.

Theodore Roosevelt
Beautiful, Lonely, Sunset
Theodore Roosevelt (1990). “Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter”, p.171, Stackpole Books

All constitutions, those of the States no less than that of the nation, are designed, and must be interpreted and administered so as to fit human rights.

Theodore Roosevelt
Rights, Constitution, Fit
Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.75, Cornell University Press

A just war is in the long run far better for a man's soul than the most prosperous peace.

Theodore Roosevelt
Running, War, Men

The nation should be ruled by the Ten Commandments.

Theodore Roosevelt
Religion, Should, Ten Commandments

Perhaps there is no more important component of character than steadfast resolution.

Theodore Roosevelt
Character, Important, Resolution
Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.56, Courier Corporation

I want to see you game, boys, I want to see you brave and manly, and I also want to see you gentle and tender.

Theodore Roosevelt
Boys, Games, History
Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “Presidential addresses and state papers”

Over-sentimentality, over-softness, in fact washiness and mushiness are the great dangers of this age and of this people. Unless we keep the barbarian virtues, gaining the civilized ones will be of little avail.

Theodore Roosevelt
People, Age, Facts
Theodore Roosevelt (2004). “Letters and Speeches”

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena..who errs, who comes short again and again; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who spends himself in a worthy cause.

Theodore Roosevelt
Men, Doe, Credit

It's not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of the deeds could have done better.

Theodore Roosevelt
Strong, Men, Done

The greatest privilege and greatest duty for any man is to be happily married, and no other form of success or service, for either man or woman, can be wisely accepted as a substitute or alternative

Theodore Roosevelt
Men, Alternatives, Privilege
Theodore Roosevelt (2013). “Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt”, p.48, Simon and Schuster