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The decisions of the courts on economic and social questions depend on their economic and social philosophy.

The decisions of the courts on economic and social questions depend on their economic and social philosophy.

Theodore Roosevelt
Philosophy, Decision, Economic
Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.81, Taylor Trade Publications

It is, of course, the merest truism to say a party is of use only so far as it serves the nation.

Theodore Roosevelt
Party, Use, Politics

The country's honor must be upheld at home and abroad.

Theodore Roosevelt
Country, Home, Honor

I feel as fit as a bull moose.

Theodore Roosevelt
Presidential, Moose, Bulls

The White House is a bully pulpit.

Theodore Roosevelt
White, House, Bully

With self-discipline, all things are possible

Theodore Roosevelt
Self, Discipline, Formal Education

Kings and such are just as funny as politicians.

Theodore Roosevelt
Kings, Government, Politician

McKinley shows all the background of a chocolate eclair.

Theodore Roosevelt
Government, Chocolate, Mckinley

Let us live in the harness, striving mightily.

Theodore Roosevelt
Effort, Strive, Harness
Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.51, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Speak softly, I'm getting my massage.

Theodore Roosevelt
Massage, Speak, Speak Softly

Conservation means development as much as it does protection. A man's usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals insofar as he can.

Theodore Roosevelt
Mean, Men, History
Theodore Roosevelt, Leo Edward Miller (1955). “Theodore Roosevelt's America: selections from the writings of the Oyster Bay naturalist”

We sincerely and earnestly believe in peace; but if peace and justice conflict, we scorn the man who would not stand for justice though the whole world came in arms against him.

Theodore Roosevelt
Believe, Men, Justice
Citizenship in a Republic - The Man in the Arena, delivered 23 April 1910, Le Sorbonne, University of Paris

...to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.

Theodore Roosevelt
Peace, War, Corporations

I would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I have acted as I ought not to.

Theodore Roosevelt
Heart, Men, Knowing
Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.57, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Life is as if you were traveling a ridge crest. You have the gulf of inefficiency on one side and the gulf of wickedness on the other, and it helps not to have avoided one gulf if you fall into the other.

Theodore Roosevelt
Fall, Wickedness, Sides
Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.7, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

A revolution is sometimes necessary, but if revolutions become habitual the country in which they take place is going down-hill

Theodore Roosevelt
Country, Revolution, Sometimes
Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.65, Courier Corporation

War with evil; but show no spirit of malignity toward the man who may be responsible for the evil. Put it out of his power to do wrong.

Theodore Roosevelt
War, Men, Evil
Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.47, Taylor Trade Publications

There is no reason why people should not call themselves Cubists, or Octagonists, or Parallelopipedonists, orKnights oftheIsoscelesTriangle, or Brothers of the Cosine, if they so desire; as expressing anything serious and permanent, one term is as fatuous as another.

Theodore Roosevelt
Brother, People, Desire
1913 His opinion on the International Exhibition of Modern Art in NewYork, popularly known asTheArmoury Show.'A Layman's Views of an Art Exhibition', inThe Outlook (9 Mar).

My power vanishes into thin air the instant that my fellow citizens, who are straight and honest, cease to believe that I represent them and fight for what is straight and honest. That is all the strength that I have.

Theodore Roosevelt
Leadership, Believe, Fighting
Theodore Roosevelt (1926). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt”

The fool who has not sense to discriminate between what is good and what is bad is well nigh as dangerous as the man who does discriminate and yet chooses the bad.

Theodore Roosevelt
Men, Doe, Fool
The Man with the Muck-rake, delivered 14 April 1906

I was a reasonably good student in college ... My chief interests were scientific. When I entered college, I was devoted to out-of-doors natural history, and my ambition was to be a scientific man of the Audubon, or Wilson, or Baird, or Coues type-a man like Hart Merriam, or Frank Chapman, or Hornaday, to-day.

Theodore Roosevelt
Ambition, Science, College
Theodore Roosevelt (2013). “Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

Much of the usefulness of any career must lie in the impress that it makes upon, and the lessons that it teaches to, the generations that come after.

Theodore Roosevelt
Lying, Careers, Generations
Theodore Roosevelt (1926). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt”

The president is that invisible force that makes a school of fish suddenly change direction, so that everyone 'ohhs' and 'ahhs' at the glimmering mass and only later wonders what makes them move in that way. I read somewhere-_Harper's_, I'm fairly certain-that the fish are only avoiding pockets of extra cold water.

Theodore Roosevelt
Moving, School, Water

Conservation is a great moral issue, for it involves the patriotic duty of insuring the safety and continuance of the nation.

Theodore Roosevelt
Patriotic, Issues, Safety
Theodore Roosevelt (1958). “Autobiography: Condensed from the original ed., supplemented by letters, speeches, and other writings”

It is a bad thing for a nation to raise and to admire a false standard of success; and there can be no falser standard than that set by the deification of material well-being in and for itself.

Theodore Roosevelt
Standards, Admire, Well Being
Citizenship in a Republic - The Man in the Arena, delivered 23 April 1910, Le Sorbonne, University of Paris