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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.

Life brings sorrows and joys alike. It is what a man does with them - not what they do to him - that is the true test of his mettle.

Theodore Roosevelt
War, Men, Joy

Profanity is the parlance of the fool. Why curse when there is such a magnificent language with which to discourse?

Theodore Roosevelt
War, Fool, Language

Our government, National and State, must be freed from the sinister influence or control of special interests. Exactly as the special interests of cotton and slavery threatened our political integrity before the Civil War, so now the great special business interests too often control and corrupt the men and methods of government for their own profit. We must drive the special interests out of politics.

Theodore Roosevelt
Integrity, War, Men
Theodore Roosevelt (1975). “The Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt: Condensed from the Original Ed., Supplemented by Letters, Speeches, and Other Writings, and Edited with an Introd. by Wayne Andrews”, Octagon Press, Limited

We must diligently strive to make our young men decent, God-fearing, law-abiding, honor-loving, justice-doing and also fearless and strong.

Theodore Roosevelt
Strong, War, Men

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

The great body of our citizens shoot less as times goes on. We should encourage rifle practice among schoolboys, and indeed among all classes, as well as in the military services by every means in our power. Thus, and not otherwise, may we be able to assist in preserving peace in the world... The first step – in the direction of preparation to avert war if possible, and to be fit for war if it should come – is to teach men to shoot!

Theodore Roosevelt
Military, War, Mean

The wise and honorable and Christian thing to do is to treat each black man and each white man (or any person) on his merits as a man, giving him no more and no less than he is worthy to have.

Theodore Roosevelt
Christian, Wise, War

From reading of the people I admired - ranging from the soldiers of Valley Forge and Morgan's riflemen to my Southern forefathers and kinfolk - I felt a great admiration for men who were fearless and who could hold their own in the world. And I had a great desire to be like them.

Theodore Roosevelt
War, Reading, Men

A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace.

Theodore Roosevelt
Military, War, Navy
Theodore Roosevelt (1916). “Fear God and Take Your Own Part”, New York : George H. Doran

The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages.

Theodore Roosevelt
War, Savages, Siberia
Theodore Roosevelt (1894). “The Winning of the West”, p.45, U of Nebraska Press

... the Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war, and the failure to act against Turkey is to condone it ... the failure to deal radically with the Turkish horror means that all talk of guaranteeing the future peace of the world is mischievous nonsense.

Theodore Roosevelt
War, Mean, Turkeys
Theodore Roosevelt (1954). “Letters: The days of Armageddon, 1909-1914”

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

A really great people, proud and high spirited, would face all the disasters of war rather than purchase that base prosperity which is bought at the price of national honor.

Theodore Roosevelt
War, People, Honor
Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “American ideals”

The Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war.

Theodore Roosevelt
War, Armenia, Crime
Theodore Roosevelt (1954). “Letters: The days of Armageddon, 1909-1914”

Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war, there is none which compares in importance with the great central task of leaving this land even a better land for our descendants than it is for us.

Theodore Roosevelt
War, Land, Presidential
Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

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.

War is not merely justifiable, but imperative upon honorable men, upon an honorable nation, where peace can only be obtained by the sacrifice of conscientious conviction or of national welfare.

Theodore Roosevelt
War, Sacrifice, Men
Theodore Roosevelt (2005). “Fear God and Take Your Own Part”, p.389, Cosimo, Inc.

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.

Theodore Roosevelt
War, Government, Leader
Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.166, Cornell University Press

Councils of War never fight.

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

Such an experiment without actual conditions of war to support it is a foolish waste of time. . . . I once saw a man kill a lion with a 30-30 caliber rifle under certain conditions, but that doesn't mean that a 30-30 rifle is a lion gun.

Theodore Roosevelt
War, Mean, Men

A just war is in the long run far better for a man's soul than the most prosperous peace.

Theodore Roosevelt
Running, War, Men

The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages, though it is apt to be also the most terrible and inhuman. The rude, fierce settler who drives the savage from the land lays all civilized mankind under a debt to him. ...[I]t is of incalculable importance that America, Australia, and Siberia should pass out of the hands of their red, black, and yellow aboriginal owners, and become the heritage of the dominant world races.

Theodore Roosevelt
War, Land, Yellow

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