“Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.” Theodore Roosevelt PeaceWar
“I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.” Theodore Roosevelt Work
“There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.” Theodore Roosevelt HistoryLife
“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 PeaceTimeWar
“The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.” Theodore Roosevelt
“Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.” Theodore Roosevelt Liberty
“Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.” Theodore Roosevelt High
“The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.” Theodore Roosevelt ActionDead
“Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.” Theodore Roosevelt FreedomMeanPast
“The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.” Theodore Roosevelt
“I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.” Theodore Roosevelt
“Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.” Theodore Roosevelt Work
“No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.” Theodore Roosevelt
“I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.” Theodore Roosevelt Life
“Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.” Theodore Roosevelt ГерманияJusticePeaceVictoryWarWorldScienceCancer
