Theodore Roosevelt Quotes & Sayings (Page 7)

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

“No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.”

“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.”

“Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.”

“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.”

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

“Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.”

“Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.”

“The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.”

“The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.”