More from Theodore Roosevelt

  1. People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
  2. Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely t…
  3. 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…
  4. Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.
  5. 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…
  6. The American people abhor a vacuum.
  7. Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
  8. The American people are slow to wrath, but once that wrath is kindled, it burns like a consuming flame.

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