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Theodore Roosevelt Quotes about Peace

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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.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.

Theodore Roosevelt
Peace, War, Freedom Of Speech
Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.146, Cornell University Press

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

Theodore Roosevelt
Peace, War, Responsibility
Theodore Roosevelt (2013). “Bully!”, p.442, Simon and Schuster

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.

Theodore Roosevelt
Strength, Peace, Thorough Knowledge
Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.37, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

We wish peace, but we wish the peace of justice, the peace of righteousness. We wish it because we think it is right and not because we are afraid.

Theodore Roosevelt
Peace, Thinking, Justice
Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.95, Cornell University Press

If we seek merely swollen, slothful ease and ignoble peace, if we shrink from the hard contests where men must win at the hazard of their lives and at the risk of all they hold dear, then bolder and stronger peoples will pass us by, and will win for themselves the domination of the world.

Theodore Roosevelt
Life, Peace, Winning
Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.7, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

Theodore Roosevelt
Peace, War, Names
Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “African and European Addresses”, p.129, tredition

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

Theodore Roosevelt
Peace, War, Kind
Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.39, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

Theodore Roosevelt
Country, Peace, Humanity
Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.79, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual; and neither a nation nor an individual can surrender conscience to another's keeping.

Theodore Roosevelt
Peace, Surrender, Individual
Theodore Roosevelt (2005). “Fear God and Take Your Own Part”, p.389, Cosimo, Inc.

Councils of War never fight.

Theodore Roosevelt
Peace, War, Fighting
Theodore Roosevelt (2001). “The Selected Letters of Theodore Roosevelt”, Cooper Square Pub

No triumph of peace is quite so great as the supreme triumphs of war.

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

There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a democrat like myself must admit this. But there is absolutely nothing to be said for government by a plutocracy, for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with the money touch, but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers.

Theodore Roosevelt
Peace, Powerful, War
Theodore Roosevelt (1954). “The days of Armageddon, 1900-1914”

No triumph of peace can equal the armed triumph of war.

Theodore Roosevelt
Peace, War, Triumph
Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

...to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.

Theodore Roosevelt
Peace, War, Corporations