Tag: Theodore Roosevelt

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

Theodore Roosevelt

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

Theodore Roosevelt

We can have no ’50-50′ allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.

Theodore Roosevelt

The bosses of the Democratic party and the bosses of the Republican party alike have a closer grip than ever before on the party machines in the States and in the Nation. This crooked control of both the old parties by the beneficiaries of political and business privilege renders it hopeless to expect any far-reaching and fundamental service from either.

Theodore Roosevelt

The worst lesson that can be taught to a man is to rely upon others and to whine over his sufferings

Theodore Roosevelt

When the time of danger comes, all Americans, whatever their social standing, whatever their creed, whatever the training they have received, no matter from what section of the country they have come, stand together as men, as Americans, and are content to face the same fate and do the same duties because fundamentally they all alike have the common purpose to serve the glorious flag of their common country.

Theodore Roosevelt

Honesty first; then courage; then brains – and all are indispensable.

Theodore Roosevelt

This covers those espousing “White Privilege” in my opinion.

Any man who tries to excite class hatred, sectional hate, hate of creeds, any kind of hatred in our community, though he may affect to do it in the interest of the class he is addressing, is in the long run with absolute certainly that class’s own worst enemy.

Theodore Roosevelt

Nowadays this can have several different meanings.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

Theodore Roosevelt

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.

Theodore Roosevelt