Theodore Roosevelt Quotes about Responsibility

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Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of today.

Theodore Roosevelt

Responsibility, Government, America

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

Your ability needs responsibility to expose its possibilities. Do what you can with what you have where you are.

Theodore Roosevelt

Responsibility, Needs, Possibility

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

The very reason why we object to state ownership, that it puts a stop to individual initiative and to the healthy development of personal responsibility, is the reason why we object to an unsupervised, unchecked monopolistic control in private hands. We urge control and supervision by the nation as an antidote to the movement for state socialism. Those who advocate total lack of regulation, those who advocate lawlessness in the business world, themselves give the strongest impulse to what I believe would be the deadening movement toward unadulterated state socialism.

Theodore Roosevelt

Wisdom, Believe, Responsibility

Theodore Roosevelt (2006). “History as Literature and Other Essays”, p.187, Cosimo, Inc.

There is not in all America a more dangerous trait than the deification of mere smartness unaccompanied by any sense of moral responsibility.

Theodore Roosevelt

Responsibility, America, Moral

Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.84, Cornell University Press

Power always brings with it responsibility.

Theodore Roosevelt

Responsibility, Evil, Good And Evil

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

There comes a time in the life of a nation, as in the life of an individual, when it must face great responsibilities, whether it will or no. We have now reached that time. We cannot avoid facing the fact that we occupy a new place among the people of the world.

Theodore Roosevelt

Responsibility, People, World

Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves; and we can shirk neither. We have become a great nation, forced by the fact of its greatness into relations with other nations of the earth, and we must behave as beseems a people with such responsibilities.

Theodore Roosevelt

Responsibility, Greatness, People

Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge (2017). “The Complete Works of Theodore Roosevelt”, p.3188, Madison & Adams Press

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