Quotes from Theodore Roosevelt
To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.
- Theodore Roosevelt
A just war is in the long run far better for a man's soul than the most prosperous peace.
- Theodore Roosevelt
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
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 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
The foes from whom we pray to be delivered are our own passions, appetites, and follies; and against these there is always need that we should war.
- Theodore Roosevelt
The sons of all of us will pay in the future if we of the present do not do justice in the present.
- Theodore Roosevelt
No triumph of peace can equal the armed triumph of war.
- Theodore Roosevelt
The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.
- Theodore Roosevelt
The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything. Do not be afraid to make mistakes providing you do not make the same one twice.
- Theodore Roosevelt
I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.
- Theodore Roosevelt
It is necessary for the welfare of the nation that men's lives be based on the principles of the Bible. No man, educated or uneducated, can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.
- Theodore Roosevelt