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Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.

Theodore Roosevelt
Presidential, Political, Reform

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

Theodore Roosevelt
Love, Dream, Stars
Theodore Roosevelt (1955). “Theodore Roosevelt's America: Selections from the Writings of the Oyster Bay Naturalist”

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.

Theodore Roosevelt
Wisdom, Children, Names
Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.24, Taylor Trade Publications

I do not dislike but I certainly have no especial respect or admiration for and no trust in, the typical big moneyed men of my country. I do not regard them as furnishing sound opinion as respects either foreign or domestic business.

Theodore Roosevelt
Country, Business, Men

The teachings of the Bible are so interwoven and entwined with our whole civic and social life that it would be literally impossible for us to figure to ourselves what that life would be if these teachings were removed.

Theodore Roosevelt
Teaching, Would Be, Impossible

The joy of living is his who has the heart to demand it. Life is a great adventure, and I want to say to you, accept it in such a spirit.

Theodore Roosevelt
Heart, Adventure, Joy

The truth is that any good modern rifle is good enough. The determining factor is the man behind the gun.

Theodore Roosevelt
Gun, Men, Rifles
Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt: African game trails”

Bodily vigor is good, and vigor of intellect is even better, but far above is character.

Theodore Roosevelt
Character, Vigor, Intellect
Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.53, Courier Corporation

It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.

Theodore Roosevelt
Aquariums, Organization, Essentials
Theodore Roosevelt, Eugene Thwing (1919). “Newer Roosevelt messages: speeches, letters and magazine articles dealing with the war, before and after, and other vital topics”

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

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

To permit every lawless capitalist, every law-defying corporation, to take any action, no matter how iniquitous, in the effort to secure an improper profit and to build up privilege, would be ruinous to the Republic and would mark the abandonment of the effort to secure in the industrial world the spirit of democratic fair dealing.

Theodore Roosevelt
Law, Effort, Would Be
Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “Presidential addresses and state papers”

Free speech exercised both individually and through a free press, is a necessity in any country where people are themselves free.

Theodore Roosevelt
Country, People, Interesting
Theodore Roosevelt (1954). “The days of Armageddon, 1900-1914”

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.

Theodore Roosevelt
Hitting, Unforgivable, Crime
1913 Theodore Roosevelt: an Autobiography.

I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.

Theodore Roosevelt
Way, Happened, Happenings
Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.47, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

We stand at Armageddon and we battle for the Lord.

Theodore Roosevelt
Battle, Armageddon, Lord
Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.30, Cornell University Press

It may be that 'the voice of the people is the voice of God' in fifty one cases out of a hundred, but in the remaining forty nine it is quite as likely to be the voice of the devil, of, what is still worse, the voice of a fool.

Theodore Roosevelt
Voice, People, Devil
Theodore Roosevelt (1951). “Letters, Selected and Edited by Elting E. Morison”

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Theodore Roosevelt
Wisdom, Memories, Struggle

Courage is not having the strength to go on, it is going on when you don't have the strength. Industry and determination can do anything that genius and advantage can do and many things that they cannot.

Theodore Roosevelt
Inspirational, Success, Uplifting

We have room but for one Language here and that is the English Language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans of American nationality and not as dwellers in a polyglot boarding-house.

Theodore Roosevelt
America, People, House
Theodore Roosevelt (1954). “Letters: The days of Armageddon, 1909-1914”

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Theodore Roosevelt
Dream, Regret, Age
Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.13, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

No ordinary work done by a man is either as hard or as responsible as the work of a woman who is bringing up a family of small children; for upon her time and strength demands are made not only every hour of the day but often every hour of the night.

Theodore Roosevelt
Mom, Children, Night
Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “Works”

If an American is to amount to anything he must rely upon himself, and not upon the State; he must take pride in his own work, instead of sitting idle to envy the luck of others. He must face life with resolute courage, win victory if he can, and accept defeat if he must, without seeking to place on his fellow man a responsibility which is not theirs.

Theodore Roosevelt
Responsibility, Pride, Men
Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.115, Taylor Trade Publications

All the resources we need are in the mind.

Theodore Roosevelt
Mind, Needs, Resources
Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.78, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Criticism is necessary and useful; it is often indispensable; but it can never take the place of action, or be even a poor substitute for it. The function of the mere critic is of very subordinate usefulness. It is the doer of deeds who actually counts in the battle for life, and not the man who looks on and says how the fight ought to be fought, without himself sharing the stress and the danger.

Theodore Roosevelt
Stress, Fighting, Men
"The College Graduate and Public Life" (1894) See Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 5; Theodore Roosevelt 18

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

Theodore Roosevelt
Military, Citizens, Weight
Speech, New York, N.Y., 11 Nov. 1902