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Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.

Theodore Roosevelt
Country, Peace, War
Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.42, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.

Theodore Roosevelt
Inspiring, Country, 4th Of July
Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.63, Taylor Trade Publications

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.

Theodore Roosevelt
Country, Truth, Mean
Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.42, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100% Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else

Theodore Roosevelt
Country, Fifty, Rooms
Speech in Saratoga, 19 July 1918, in Roosevelt Policy (1919) vol. 3, p. 1079

We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.

Theodore Roosevelt
Country, Men, Allegiance
Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.31, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

Theodore Roosevelt
Country, Political, Immigration
Speech in New York, 12 October 1915, in 'Works', Memorial edition (1925) vol. 20, p. 457

There should be at least ten times the number of rifles in the country as there are now.

Theodore Roosevelt
Country, Gun, Numbers
Theodore Roosevelt (1923). “Theodore Roosevelt on race, riots, Reds, crime”

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

Theodore Roosevelt
Country, Men, Squares
Speech, Springfield, Ill., 4 July 1903 See Theodore Roosevelt 12

Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.

Theodore Roosevelt
Country, Nature, Children
Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.42, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

Theodore Roosevelt
Country, Patriotic, Years
Theodore Roosevelt (1921). “Roosevelt in the Kansas City Star: War-time Editorials”

This country has nothing to fear from the crooked man who fails. We put him in jail. It is the crooked man who succeeds who is a threat to this country.

Theodore Roosevelt
Country, Men, Jail
Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.72, Taylor Trade Publications

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

Theodore Roosevelt
Country, Men, Wife
Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.91, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

The good citizen will demand liberty for himself, and as a matter of pride he will see to it that others receive the liberty which he thus claims as his own. Probably the best test of true love of liberty in any country is the way in which minorities are treated in that country. Not only should there be complete liberty in matters of religion and opinion, but complete liberty for each man to lead his life as he desires, provided only that in so doing he does not wrong his neighbor.

Theodore Roosevelt
Wisdom, Country, Pride
Citizenship in a Republic - The Man in the Arena, delivered 23 April 1910, Le Sorbonne, University of Paris

When the time of danger comes, all Americans, whatever their social standing, whatever their creed, whatever the training they have received, no matter from what section of the country they have come, stand together as men, as Americans, and are content to face the same fate and do the same duties because fundamentally they all alike have the common purpose to serve the glorious flag of their common country.

Theodore Roosevelt
Country, Fate, Men
Address at the Yale Alumni Dinner, The Oxford Club, Brooklyn, New York, www.theodore-roosevelt.com. March 03, 1899.

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

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”

We have room in this country for but one flag, the Stars and Stripes!

Theodore Roosevelt
Country, Stars, Military
Theodore Roosevelt (1925). “The foes of our own household; The great adventure; Letters to his children”

The Americans of other blood must remember that the man who in good faith and without reservations gives up another country for this must in return receive exactly the same rights, not merely legal, but social and spiritual, that other Americans proudly possess. We of the United States belong to a new and separate nationality. We are all Americans and nothing else, and each, without regard to his birthplace, creed, or national origin, is entitled to exactly the same rights as all other Americans.

Theodore Roosevelt
Spiritual, Country, Giving Up
Theodore Roosevelt (1921). “Roosevelt in the Kansas City Star: War-time Editorials”

In a civilized and cultivated country wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen. the excellent people who protest against all hunting, and consider sportsmen as enemies of wild life, are ignorant of the fact that in reality the genuine sportsman is by all odds the most important factor in keeping the larger and more valuable wild creatures from total extermination.

Theodore Roosevelt
Country, Animal, Reality
THEODORE ROOSEVELT (2015). “The Deer Family”, p.81, Loose Cannon

If there is any one duty which more than another we owe it to our children and our children's children to perform at once, it is to save the forests of this country, for they constitute the first and most important element in the conservation of the natural resources of this country.

Theodore Roosevelt
Country, Children, Tree
Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “Presidential addresses and state papers”

I hold that in this country there must be complete severance of Church and State; that public moneys shall not be used for the purpose of advancing any particular creed; and therefore that the public schools shall be nonsectarian and no public moneys appropriated for sectarian schools.

Theodore Roosevelt
Country, School, Presidential
Theodore Roosevelt (2005). “Fear God and Take Your Own Part”, p.361, Cosimo, Inc.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism.

Theodore Roosevelt
Country, Presidential, Rooms
Speech, New York, N.Y., 12 Oct. 1915

In a civilized and cultivated country, wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen.

Theodore Roosevelt
Country, Hunting, Animal
THEODORE ROOSEVELT (2015). “The Deer Family”, p.81, Loose Cannon

90% of the work in this country is done by people who don't feel good".

Theodore Roosevelt
Country, People, Feel Good

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all.

Theodore Roosevelt
Country, Rooms, Born
Theodore Roosevelt (2005). “Fear God and Take Your Own Part”, p.361, Cosimo, Inc.