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This broken country extends back from the river for many miles and has been called always be Indian, French voyager and American trappers alike, the Bad Lands.

This broken country extends back from the river for many miles and has been called always be Indian, French voyager and American trappers alike, the Bad Lands.

Theodore Roosevelt
Country, Land, Rivers

The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.

Theodore Roosevelt
Needs, Attention, Too Much
Theodore Roosevelt (2013). “Bully!”, p.258, Simon and Schuster

In the great battle of life, no brilliancy of intellect, no perfection of bodily development, will count when weighed in the balance against the assemblage of virtues, active and passive, of moral qualities which we group together under the name of character.

Theodore Roosevelt
Character, Names, Perfection
Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.69, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

It [the Civil War] was a heroic struggle; and, as is inevitable with all such struggles, it had also a dark and terrible side. Very much was done of good, and much also of evil; and, as was inevitable in such a period of revolution, often the same man did both good and evil. For our great good fortune as a nation, we, the people of the United States as a whole, can now afford to forget the evil, or, at least, to remember it without bitterness, and to fix our eyes with pride only on the good that was accomplished.

Theodore Roosevelt
War, Struggle, Eye

I hold it to be our duty to see that the wage-worker, the small producer, the ordinary consumer, shall get their fair share of business prosperity. But it either is or ought to be evident to everyone that business has to prosper before anybody can get any benefit from it.

Theodore Roosevelt
Ordinary, Benefits, Prosperity

I enter a most earnest plea that in our hurried and rather bustling life of today we do not lose the hold that our forefathers had on the Bible.

Theodore Roosevelt
Today, Earnest, Loses
Theodore Roosevelt (1911). “Realizable ideals: (the Earl lectures)”

From the very beginning our people have markedly combined practical capacity for affairs with power of devotion to an ideal. The lack of either quality would have rendered the other of small value.

Theodore Roosevelt
People, Quality, Affair
Theodore Roosevelt (1970). “Presidential Addresses and State Papers of Theodore Roosevelt”

When liberty becomes license, some form of one-man power is not far distant.

Theodore Roosevelt
Men, Liberty, Form
Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

The sons of all of us will pay in the future if we of the present do not do justice in the present.

Theodore Roosevelt
War, Son, Justice
Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.82, Taylor Trade Publications

The duties are even more important than the rights; and in the long run I think that the reward is ampler and greater for duty well done, than for the insistence upon individual rights.

Theodore Roosevelt
Running, Thinking, Rights
Theodore Roosevelt (1906). “A Square Deal”

A healthy state can exist only when the men and women who make it up lead clean, vigorous, healthy lives; when the children are so trained that they shall endeavor, not to shirk difficulties, but to overcome them; not to seek ease, but to know how to wrest triumph from toil and risk.

Theodore Roosevelt
Children, Men, Healthy
Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.2, Courier Corporation

If there ever was a pursuit which stultified itself by its very conditions, it is the pursuit of pleasure as the all-sufficing end of life. Happiness cannot come to any man capable of enjoying true happiness unless it comes as the sequel to duty well and honestly done. To do that duty you need to have more than one trait. From the greatest to the smallest, happiness and usefulness are largely found in the same soul, and the joy of life is won in its deepest and truest sense only by those who have not shirked life's burdens.

Theodore Roosevelt
Men, Joy, Soul

It is of little use for us to pay lip-loyalty to the mighty men of the past unless we sincerely endeavor to apply to the problems of the present precisely the qualities which in other crises enabled the men of that day to meet those crises.

Theodore Roosevelt
Loyalty, Past, Men
Theodore Roosevelt (2004). “Letters and Speeches”

In speaking to you men of the greatest city of the West, men of the state which gave to the country Lincoln and Grant, men who preeminently and distinctly embody all that is most American in the American character, I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

Theodore Roosevelt
Life, Country, Character
Speech to Hamilton Club, Chicago, Ill., 10 Apr. 1899

Massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.

Theodore Roosevelt
Mind, Salary, Recognition
"Socially Responsible IT Management". Book by Michael Erbschloe (p. 29), 2003.

The general tendency towards an eight-hour working day has undoubtedly been healthful, and it is wise for the State to set a good example as an employer of labor, both as to the number of hours of labor exacted and as to paying a just and reasonable wage.

Theodore Roosevelt
Wise, Eight, Numbers

Our flag is a proud flag, and it stands for liberty and civilization. Where it has once floated, there must be no return to tyranny.

Theodore Roosevelt
Civilization, Liberty, Flags
Theodore Roosevelt (1926). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt”

Every man among us is more fit to meet the duties and responsibilities of citizenship because of the perils over which, in the past, the nation has triumphed; because of the blood and sweat and tears, the labor and the anguish, through which, in the days that have gone, our forefathers moved on to triumph.

Theodore Roosevelt
Responsibility, Past, Men
Speech at Naval War College, Newport, R.I., June 1897 See Byron 28; Winston Churchill 9; Winston Churchill 12; Donne 4

Hardness of heart is a dreadful quality, but it is doubtful whether in the long run it works more damage than softness of head.

Theodore Roosevelt
Running, Heart, Long
Theodore Roosevelt (1904). “Addresses and Presidential Messages of Theodore Roosevelt, 1902-1904”

A President has a great chance; his position is almost that of a king and a prime minister rolled into one.

Theodore Roosevelt
Kings, President, Chance
Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

We cannot afford merely to sit down and deplore the evils of city life as inevitable, when cities are constantly growing, both absolutely and relatively. We must set ourselves vigorously about the task of improving them; and this task is now well begun.

Theodore Roosevelt
Cities, Evil, Tasks
Theodore Roosevelt (1926). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt”

The only trouble with the movement for the preservation of our forests is that it has not gone nearly far enough, and was not begun soon enough.

Theodore Roosevelt
Soon Enough, Gone, Movement
Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “Presidential addresses and state papers”

To discriminate against a thoroughly upright citizen because he belongs to some particular church, or because, like Abraham Lincoln, he has not avowed his allegiance to any church, is an outrage against the liberty of conscience, which is one of the foundations of American life.

Theodore Roosevelt
Presidential, Church, Liberty
Theodore Roosevelt (1908). “Americanism in Religion”

Oh, if only I could be President and Congress, too, just for ten minutes.

Theodore Roosevelt
President, Minutes, Congress

Yes, Haven, most of us enjoy preaching, and Ive got such a bully pulpit!

Theodore Roosevelt
Bully, Pulpit, Enjoy
Theodore Roosevelt (1927). “The Winning of the West: An Account of the Exploration and Settlement of Our Country from the Alleghanies to the Pacific”