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A typical vice of American politics the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues, and the announcement of radical policies with much sound and fury, and at the same time with a cautious accompaniment of weasel

A typical vice of American politics the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues, and the announcement of radical policies with much sound and fury, and at the same time with a cautious accompaniment of weasel phrases each of which sucks the meat out of the preceding statement.

Theodore Roosevelt
Real, Issues, Vices
Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

All for each, and each for all, is a good motto; but only on condition that each works with might and main to so maintain himself as not to be a burden to others.

Theodore Roosevelt
Might, Motto, Burden
Theodore Roosevelt (2013). “Bully!”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

Among the wise and high-minded people who in self-respecting and genuine fashion strive earnestly for peace, there are the foolish fanatics always to be found in such a movement and always discrediting it the men who form the lunatic fringe in all reform movements.

Theodore Roosevelt
Wise, Fashion, Men
Theodore Roosevelt (1899). “The Rough Riders: An Autobiography”, p.461, Library of America

The performance of duty, and not an indulgence in vapid ease and vapid pleasure, is all that makes life worth while.

Theodore Roosevelt
Vapid, Ease, Pleasure
Theodore Roosevelt (2013). “Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

Under government ownership corruption can flourish just as rankly as under private ownership.

Theodore Roosevelt
Government, Corruption, Ownership
Theodore Roosevelt (1952). “1907-1907”

When we control business in the public interest we are also bound to encourage it in the public interest or it will be a bad thing for everybody and worst of all for those on whose behalf the control is nominally exercised.

Theodore Roosevelt
Business, Worst, Interest

I have already lived and enjoyed as much life as any nine other men I have known.

Theodore Roosevelt
Men, Nine, Enjoyed

A true forest is not merely a storehouse full of wood, but, as it were, a factory of wood.

Theodore Roosevelt
Woods, Forests, Factories
Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

I don't think any President ever enjoyed himself more than I did. Moreover, I don't think any ex-President ever enjoyed himself more.

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

Don't hit at all if you can help it; don't hit a man if you can possibly avoid it; but if you do hit him, put him to sleep.

Theodore Roosevelt
Sleep, Men, President
Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.53, Taylor Trade Publications

Rattlesnakes are only too plentiful everywhere; along the river bottoms, in the broken, hilly ground, and on the prairies and the great desert wastes alike...If it can it will get out of the way, and only coils up in its attitude of defence when it believes that it is actually menaced.

Theodore Roosevelt
Attitude, Believe, Rivers

Conservation means development as much as it does protection.

Theodore Roosevelt
Mean, Presidential, Development
Theodore Roosevelt (2014). “Selected Speeches and Writings of Theodore Roosevelt”, p.119, Vintage

A healthy-minded boy should feel hearty contempt for the coward and even more hearty indignation for the boy who bullies girls or small boys, or tortures animals.

Theodore Roosevelt
Girl, Animal, Boys
Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.19, Taylor Trade Publications

I regard the Masonic institution as one of the means ordained by the Supreme Architect to enable mankind to work out the problem of destiny; to fight against, and overcome, the weaknesses and imperfections of his nature, and at last to attain to that true life of which death is the herald and the grave the portal.

Theodore Roosevelt
Mean, Fighting, Destiny

I think we are warranted in contending that a society thus constituted, and which may be rendered so admirable an engine of improvement, far from meriting reproach, deserves highly of the community.

Theodore Roosevelt
Thinking, Community, May

Americanism is a question of spirit, of conviction and purpose, not creed or birthplaces. The test of our worth is the service we render.

Theodore Roosevelt
Purpose, Tests, Spirit

I violate no secret when I say that one of the greatest values in Masonry is that it affords an opportunity for men of all walks of life to meet on common ground where all men are equal and have one common interest.

Theodore Roosevelt
Opportunity, Men, Secret

The extermination of the buffalo has been a veritable tragedy of the animal world.

Theodore Roosevelt
Animal, Tragedy, World
Theodore Roosevelt (2000). “Hunting Trips of a Ranchman and The Wilderness Hunter”, p.169, Modern Library

Yes, my friend, and if you will steal for me then you will steal from me.

Theodore Roosevelt
Stealing, My Friends, Ifs
Citizenship in a Republic - The Man in the Arena, delivered 23 April 1910, Le Sorbonne, University of Paris

In name we had the Declaration of Independence in 1776; but we gave the lie by our acts to the words of the Declaration of Independence until 1865; and words count for nothing except in so far as they represent acts.

Theodore Roosevelt
Lying, Names, Independence
Theodore Roosevelt (1926). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt”

The Bad Lands grade all the way from those that are almost rolling in character to those that are so fantastically broken in form and so bizarre in color as to seem hardly properly to belong to this earth.

Theodore Roosevelt
Character, Color, Land
Theodore Roosevelt (2000). “Hunting Trips of a Ranchman and The Wilderness Hunter”, p.108, Modern Library

We can no more and no less afford to condone evil in the man of capital than evil in the man of no capital.

Theodore Roosevelt
Men, Evil, He Man
The Man with the Muck-rake, delivered 14 April 1906

While my interest in natural history has added very little to my sum of achievement, it has added immeasurably to my sum of enjoyment in life.

Theodore Roosevelt
Achievement, Littles, Natural
Theodore Roosevelt (2014). “Forgotten Tales and Vanished Trails”, p.192, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

My experience...convinced me that tea was better than brandy, and during the last six months in Afica I took no brandy, even when sick taking tea instead.

Theodore Roosevelt
Sick, Tea, Six Months

To borrow a simile from the football field, we believe that men must play fair, but that there must be no shirking, and that the success can only come to the player who hits the line hard.

Theodore Roosevelt
Football, Believe, Men
Speech, Oyster Bay, N.Y., Oct. 1897