Theodore Roosevelt Quotes about Evil

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No greater wrong can ever be done than to put a good man at the mercy of a bad, while telling him not to defend himself or his fellows; in no way can the success of evil be made surer or quicker.

No greater wrong can ever be done than to put a good man at the mercy of a bad, while telling him not to defend himself or his fellows; in no way can the success of evil be made surer or quicker.

Theodore Roosevelt

Men, Evil, Good Man

Theodore Roosevelt (1894). “From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 - - v. 2. From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783”, U of Nebraska Press

Certain rich men, whose lives are evil and corrupt, are the representatives of predatory wealth accumulated by all forms of inequity, from the oppression of wage workers to unfair methods of crushing out competition.

Theodore Roosevelt

Crush, Men, Evil

The best lesson that any people can learn is that there is no patent cure-all which will make the body politic perfect, and that any man who is able glibly to answer every question as to how to deal with the evils of the body politic is at best a foolish visionary and at worst an evil-minded quack.

Theodore Roosevelt

Men, People, Evil

Theodore Roosevelt (2006). “History as Literature and Other Essays”, p.191, Cosimo, Inc.

Envy is as evil a thing as arrogance.

Theodore Roosevelt

Evil, Envy, Arrogance

Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.45, Taylor Trade Publications

To sit home, read one's favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men's doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

Home, Men, Evil

Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.77, Cornell University Press

Anything that encourages pauperism, anything that relaxes the manly fiber and lowers self-respect, is an unmixed evil.

Theodore Roosevelt

Self, Evil, Relax

Theodore Roosevelt (1901). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”

The forces that tend for evil are great and terrible, but the forces of truth and love and courage and honesty and generosity and sympathy are also stronger than ever before.

Theodore Roosevelt

Honesty, Generosity, Evil

The Man with the Muck-rake, delivered 14 April 1906

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.

Theodore Roosevelt

Life, Men, Evil

In Works, Memorial edition (1925) vol. 15, p. 388 "Latitude and Longitude among Reformers"

Power always brings with it responsibility.

Theodore Roosevelt

Responsibility, Evil, Good And Evil

Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “The New Nationalism”, Best Books on

The plea of good intentions is not one that can be allowed to have much weight in passing historical judgment upon a man whose wrong-headedness and distorted way of looking at things produced, or helped to produce, such incalculable evil; there is a wide political applicability in the remark attributed to a famous Texan, to the effect that he might, in the end, pardon a man who shot him on purpose, but that he would surely never forgive one who did so accidentally.

Theodore Roosevelt

Men, Evil, Political

Theodore Roosevelt (1899). “Thomas H. Benton”

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

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

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”