Quote #130

There is but one answer to be made to the dynamite bomb, and that can best be made with the Winchester rifle.

More from Theodore Roosevelt

  1. There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100 percent. Americanism, only for those who are Ameri…
  2. There is not in all America a more dangerous trait than the deification of mere smartness unaccompanied by any sense of moral responsibilit…
  3. There are good men and bad men of all nationalities, creeds and colors; and if this world of ours is ever to become what we hope some day i…
  4. There is not one among us in whom a devil does not dwell; at sometime, on some point, that devil masters each of us; he who has never faile…
  5. The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.
  6. To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
  7. The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft …
  8. We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power…

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