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It is only the warlike power of a civilized people that can give peace to the world.

It is only the warlike power of a civilized people that can give peace to the world.

Theodore Roosevelt
People, Giving, World
Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.17, Courier Corporation

The woman has the right to be emancipated from the position of a drudge or a toy. She is entitled to a full equality in rights with man.

Theodore Roosevelt
Men, Rights, Toys

I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if they degenerate into the sole end of any one's existence. I don't want you to sacrifice standing well in your studies to any over-athleticism; and I need not tell you that character counts for a great deal more than either intellect or body in winning success in life. Athletic proficiency is a mighty good servant, and like so many other good servants, a mighty bad master.

Theodore Roosevelt
Soccer, Sports, Football
Theodore Roosevelt, Joseph Bishop (2010). “Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children”, p.63, Applewood Books

While President, I have been President - emphatically.

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

Those who advocate total lack of regulation, those who advocate lawlessness in the business world, themselves give the strongest impulse to what I believe would be the deadening movement toward unadulterated state socialism.

Theodore Roosevelt
Believe, Giving, Would Be
Theodore Roosevelt (2006). “History as Literature and Other Essays”, p.187, Cosimo, Inc.

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

Theodore Roosevelt
Law, Politics, Ruins
Theodore Roosevelt (1904). “The Roosevelt Doctrine: Beng the Personal Utterances of the President on Various Matters of Vital Interest, Authoritatively Arranged for Reference in Their Logical Sequence; a Brief Summary of the Principles of American Citizenship and Government”

Abraham Lincoln - the spirit incarnate of those who won victory in the Civil War - was the true representative of this people, not only for his own generation, but for all time, because he was a man among men.

Theodore Roosevelt
War, Men, People
Theodore Roosevelt (2016). “Theodore Roosevelt's Words of Wit and Wisdom”, p.52, Chartwell

The dreams of golden glory in the future will not come true unless, high of heart and strong of hand, by our own mighty deeds we make them come true.

Theodore Roosevelt
Dream, Strong, Heart
Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “African and European Addresses”, p.120, tredition

The vice of envy is not only a dangerous, but a mean vice; for it is always a confession of inferiority. It may promote conduct which will be fruitful of wrong to others, and it must cause misery to the man who feels it.

Theodore Roosevelt
Mean, Men, Envy

The mass of the American people are most emphatically not in the deplorable condition of which you speak.

Theodore Roosevelt
People, Speak, Mass
Theodore Roosevelt (1926). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt”

I have now run up against an ugly snag, the Sunday Excise Law. It is altogether too strict, but I have no honorable alternative save to enforce it and I am enforcing it, to the furious rage of the saloon keepers, and of many good people too; for which I am sorry.

Theodore Roosevelt
Running, Sorry, Sunday
Theodore Roosevelt (1951). “Letters”

Toward all other nations, large and small, our attitude must be one of cordial and sincere friendship. We must show not only in our words, but in our deeds, that we are earnestly desirous of securing their good will by acting toward them in a spirit of just and generous recognition of all their rights.

Theodore Roosevelt
Attitude, Rights, Acting
Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.95, Cornell University Press

I cannot consent to take the position that the door of hope - the door of opportunity - is to be shut upon any man, no matter how worthy, purely upon the grounds of race or color. Such an attitude would, according to my convictions, be fundamentally wrong.

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

Give a man a soccer ball, he plays for a moment. Teach a man to play soccer, he plays for a life time.

Theodore Roosevelt
Soccer, Men, Play

Death is always, under all circumstances, a tragedy, for if it is not then it means that life has become one.

Theodore Roosevelt
Death, Mean, Tragedy

Every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may require it.

Theodore Roosevelt
Men, Land, Community
Speech, Osawatomie, Kan., 31 Aug. 1910

I always keep my weather eye on the opposition of my seventh house Moon to my first house Mars.

Theodore Roosevelt
Eye, Moon, Weather

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

Theodore Roosevelt
Work, Men, Ballet
Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.37, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

I'm as strong as a bull moose and you can use me to the limit.

Theodore Roosevelt
Strong, Moose, Use
Letter to Mark Hanna, 17 June 1900. Roosevelt had used the expression "I feel as strong as a bull-moose" in an earlier letter of 29 Oct. 1895.

Progress has brought us both unbounded opportunities and unbridled difficulties. Thus, the measure of our civilization will not be that we have done much, but what we have done with that much. I believe that the next half century will determine if we will advance the cause of Christian civilization or revert to the horrors of brutal paganism. The thought of modern industry in the hands of Christian charity is a dream worth dreaming. The thought of industry in the hands of paganism is a nightmare beyond imagining. The choice between the two is upon us.

Theodore Roosevelt
Christian, Dream, Believe

Now, it is very necessary that we should not flinch from seeing what is vile and debasing. There is filth on the floor, and it must be scraped up with the muck rake; and there are times and places where this service is the most needed of all the services that can be performed. But the man who never does anything else, who never thinks or speaks or writes, save of his feats with the muck rake, speedily becomes, not a help but one of the most potent forces for evil.

Theodore Roosevelt
Writing, Men, Thinking
The Man with the Muck-rake, delivered 14 April 1906

Nowhere, not at sea, does a man feel more lonely than when riding over the far-reaching, seemingly never-ending plains.

Theodore Roosevelt
Lonely, Men, Sea
Theodore Roosevelt (2010). “The Green Roosevelt: Theodore Roosevelt in Appreciation of Wilderness, Wildlife, and Wild Places”, p.277, Cambria Press

The poorest way to face life is to face it with a sneer.

Theodore Roosevelt
Way, Faces, Life Is
Citizenship in a Republic - The Man in the Arena, delivered 23 April 1910, Le Sorbonne, University of Paris

The ordinary air fighter is an extraordinary man and the extraordinary air fighter stands as one in a million among his fellows.

Theodore Roosevelt
Men, Air, Ordinary

I always believe in going hard at everything, whether it is Latin or mathematics, boxing or football, but at the same time I want to keep the sense of proportion. It is never worth while to absolutely exhaust one's self or to take big chances unless for an adequate object. I want you to keep in training the faculties which would make you, if the need arose, able to put your last ounce of pluck and strength into a contest. But I do not want you to squander these qualities.

Theodore Roosevelt
Sports, Football, Latin
Theodore Roosevelt (1995). “A Bully Father: Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children”, Random House Incorporated