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I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life; the life of toil and effort; of labour and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes not to the man who desires

I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life; the life of toil and effort; of labour and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes not to the man who desires mere easy peace but 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. A life of ignoble ease, a life of that peace which springs merely from lack either of desire or of power to strive after great things, is as little worthy of a nation as of an individual.

Theodore Roosevelt
Spring, Winning, Men
Theodore Roosevelt (1904). “The Roosevelt Book: Selections from the Writings of Theodore Roosevelt”

The immigrant must not be allowed to drift or to be put at the mercy of the exploiter. Our object is not to imitate one of the older racial types, but to maintain a new American type and then to secure loyalty to this type. We cannot secure such loyalty unless we make this a country where men shall feel that they have justice and also where they shall feel that they are required to perform the duties imposed upon them.

Theodore Roosevelt
Loyalty, Country, Men
Theodore Roosevelt (2005). “Fear God and Take Your Own Part”, p.373, Cosimo, Inc.

The true friend of property, the true conservative, is he who insists that property shall be the servant and not the master of the commonwealth; who insists that the creature of man’s making shall be the servant and not the master of the man who made it. The citizens of the United States must effectively control the mighty commercial forces which they have called into being. There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. To put an end to it will be neither a short nor an easy task, but it can be done.

Theodore Roosevelt
True Friend, Men, Political
Theodore Roosevelt (2004). “Letters and Speeches”

The effort to make financial or political profit out of the destruction of character can only result in public calamity. Gross and reckless assaults on character, whether on the stump or in newspaper, magazine, or book, create a morbid and vicious public sentiment, and at the same time act as a profound deterrent to able men of normal sensitiveness and tend to prevent them from entering the public service at any price.

Theodore Roosevelt
Book, Character, Men
The Man with the Muck-rake, delivered 14 April 1906

It is by no means necessary that a great nation should always stand at the heroic level. But no nation has the root of greatness in it unless in time of need it can rise to the heroic mood.

Theodore Roosevelt
Mean, Greatness, Roots
Theodore Roosevelt (2005). “Fear God and Take Your Own Part”, p.350, Cosimo, Inc.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action.

Theodore Roosevelt
Action, Poor, Substitutes
Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.36, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.

Theodore Roosevelt
Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom
Theodore Roosevelt (2005). “Fear God and Take Your Own Part”, p.54, Cosimo, Inc.

It is a wicked thing to be neutral between right and wrong.

Theodore Roosevelt
Wicked, Wicked Things
Theodore Roosevelt (2005). “Fear God and Take Your Own Part”, p.26, Cosimo, Inc.

Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords.

Theodore Roosevelt
Sports, Fighting, History

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

Theodore Roosevelt
Effort, Intellectual, Done

A grove of giant redwood or sequoias should be kept just as we keep a great and beautiful cathedral.

Theodore Roosevelt
Beautiful, Tree, Giants
Theodore Roosevelt (2010). “The Green Roosevelt: Theodore Roosevelt in Appreciation of Wilderness, Wildlife, and Wild Places”, p.367, Cambria Press

The name Roosevelt has this legendary force in our country at this time.

Theodore Roosevelt
Country, Time, Names

The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages, though it is apt to be also the most terrible and inhuman. The rude, fierce settler who drives the savage from the land lays all civilized mankind under a debt to him. ...[I]t is of incalculable importance that America, Australia, and Siberia should pass out of the hands of their red, black, and yellow aboriginal owners, and become the heritage of the dominant world races.

Theodore Roosevelt
War, Land, Yellow

It is character that counts in a nation as in a man.

Theodore Roosevelt
Character, Men, Nations
Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.102, Courier Corporation

We are the heirs of the ages

Theodore Roosevelt
Age, Heirs
Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.47, Cornell University Press

Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Theodore Roosevelt
Inspirational, Entrepreneur, Job Opportunities
Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.13, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune-make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.

Theodore Roosevelt
Iron, History, Endurance
Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.93, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

No triumph of peace is quite so great as the supreme triumphs of war.

Theodore Roosevelt
Peace, War, Triumph
Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.134, Taylor Trade Publications

It is no limitation upon property rights or freedom of contract to require that when men receive from government the privilege of doing business under corporate form... they shall do so under absolutely truthful representations... Great corporations exist only because they were created and safeguarded by our institutions; and it is therefore our right and duty to see that they work in harmony with these institutions.

Theodore Roosevelt
Business, Men, Rights

I am rather more apt to read old books than new ones.

Theodore Roosevelt
War, Book, Old Books

In life, as in football, the principle to follow is to hit the line hard.

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

To have acted otherwise ... would have been the betrayal of the interests of the United States.

Theodore Roosevelt
Betrayal, United States, Interest

There is no patent recipe for getting good citizenship. You get it by applying the old, old rules of decent conduct, the rules in accordance with which decent men have had to shape their lives from the beginning .. fundamental precepts, put forth in the Bible and embodied consciously or unconsciously in the code of morals of every great and successful nation from antiquity to modern times.

Theodore Roosevelt
Successful, Men, Patents

The supreme duty of the Nation is the conservation of human resources through an enlightened measure of social and industrial justice. We pledge ourselves to work unceasingly in State and Nation for ... the protection of home life against the hazards of sickness, irregular employment and old age through the adoption of a system of social insurance adapted to American use.

Theodore Roosevelt
Home, Justice, Adoption

What I have advocated is not wild radicalism. It is the highest and wisest kind of conservatism.

Theodore Roosevelt
Radicalism, Kind, Conservatism
Theodore Roosevelt (1912). “The Conservation of Womanhood and Childhood”, Best Books