Quote #103

One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called 'weasel words.' When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a 'weasel word' after another there is nothing left of the other.

More from Theodore Roosevelt

  1. Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
  2. Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
  3. Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.
  4. Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President or any other public official save exactly to the degre…
  5. Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
  6. Peace is generally good in itself, but it is never the highest good unless it comes as the handmaid of righteousness; and it becomes a very…
  7. No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
  8. People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

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