Frases de Theodore Roosevelt (487 citações, página 12)

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Theodore Roosevelt Frases famosas

“Educar uma pessoa apenas no intelecto, mas não na moral, é criar uma ameaça à sociedade”

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“Faça o que puder, com o que tiver, onde estiver.”

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Do what you can, with what you have, where you are
The Works of Theodore Roosevelt - Volume: Through the Brazilian Wilderness And Papers on Natural History‎ - página xvii, de Theodore Roosevelt - Publicado por Cosimo, Inc., 2006, ISBN 1596058293, 9781596058293 - 440 páginas
Variante: Faça o que você pode, com o que você tem, no lugar onde você está!

“O único homem que nunca comete erros é aquele que nunca faz coisa alguma.”

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“Acredite que você pode, assim você já está no meio do caminho.”

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“Mantenha os seus olhos nas estrelas e os seus pés na terra”

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“As pessoas não se importam com o quanto você sabe até saberem o quanto você se importa.”

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Citações de pessoas de Theodore Roosevelt

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“Nunca na minha vida invejei um ser humano que levou uma vida fácil; Tenho invejado as muitas pessoas que levaram vidas difíceis e as conduziram bem.”

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“Um bom conhecimento da Bíblia vale mais do que uma educação superior. Quase todas as pessoas que com o trabalho de suas vidas acrescentaram algo para o conjunto das realizações humanas… basearam o seu trabalho grandemente nos ensinamentos da Bíblia.”

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“Não importa o que as outras pessoas falem de você, o importante é que você continue sendo a pessoa que sempre foi. Se mudar mude para melhor.”

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“O único ingrediente mais importante na fórmula do sucesso é saber se entender com as pessoas.”

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“O mais importante ingrediente na fórmula do sucesso é saber como lidar com as pessoas.”

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Citações de homens de Theodore Roosevelt

“O único homem que nunca comete erros é aquele que nunca faz coisa alguma. Não tenha medo de errar, pois você aprenderá a não cometer duas vezes o mesmo erro.”

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The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything
Theodore Roosevelt‎ - Página 54, de Lois Markham - Publicado por Chelsea House, 1985, ISBN 0877545537, 9780877545538 - 111 páginas

“Todo homem que investe em um imóvel bem selecionado, em uma comunidade próspera, adota o método mais seguro de se tornar independente. Imóvel é a base da riqueza.”

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“Convém a cada homem lembrar que o trabalho do crítico, é de importância completamente secundária, e que, no final, o progresso é realizado pelo homem que faz as coisas.”

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“Nenhum homem é justificado em fazer o mal pelo fundamento da utilidade.”

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“Um homem que rouba por mim fatalmente roubará de mim.”

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“Eu não me importo com o que os outros pensam sobre o que eu faço, mas eu me importo muito com o que eu penso sobre o que eu faço. Isso é caráter.”

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“O vigor físico é bom, o vigor intelectual melhor ainda, mas, muito acima de ambos, está o vigor do caráter.”

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“É difícil melhorar nossa condição material com leis boas, mas é muito fácil arruiná-la com leis ruins.”

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It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws
The Theodore Roosevelt Treasury: A Self-portrait from His Writings‎ - Página 148, de Theodore Roosevelt, Hermann Hagedorn - Publicado por Putnam, 1957 - 342 páginas

De leis

“Fale suavemente e carregue um grande porrete.”

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“Se fracassar, ao menos que fracasse ousando grandes feitos, de modo que a sua postura não seja nunca a dessas almas frias e tímidas que não conhecem nem a vitória nem a derrota.”

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Alma , Vitória

“Sempre que lhe perguntarem se você sabe fazer um trabalho, diga que sim? e apresse-se em descobrir como executá-lo.”

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“A justiça não consiste em ser neutro entre o certo e o errado, mas em descobrir o certo e sustentá-lo, onde quer que ele se encontre, contra o errado.”

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De justiça

“A conservação dos recursos naturais é o problema fundamental. Se não o resolvermos, ficará difícil resolver todos os demais.”

Theodore Roosevelt livro Works

The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others.
Works: Presidential addresses and state papers, Dec. 3, 1901, June 1910, and European addresses. 8 v - página 1433, Theodore Roosevelt, The Review of Reviews Publishing Company, 1910

Problema

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“É difícil fracassar, mas é pior nunca ter tentado ter sucesso.”

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Sucesso

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“A polidez é um sinal de dignidade, não subserviência.”

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“De longe, o maior prêmio que a vida oferece é a chance de trabalhar muito e se dedicar a algo que valha a pena.”

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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
The Square Deal" no Dia do Trabalho, discurso no New York State Agricultural Association, Syracuse, NY (9 de julho de 1903)

De vida , Chance

“Fale macio e use um porrete.”

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“Nada é impossível. Se puder ser sonhado, então pode ser feito.”

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“É muito melhor arriscar coisas grandiosas, alcançar triunfos e glórias, mesmo expondo-se a derrota, do que formar fila com os pobres de espírito que nem gozam muito nem sofrem muito, porque vivem nessa penumbra cinzenta que não conhece vitória nem derrota.”

Theodore Roosevelt The Strenuous Life

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs - even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat
The strenuous life: essays and addresses - página 4, Theodore Roosevelt, Adegi Graphics LLC, 1924, ISBN 1421265893, 9781421265896, 332 páginas

Vitória

“Muito melhor é ousar grande feitos, ganhar gloriosos triunfos, mesmo salpicados de falhas, do que se alinhar com aqueles pobres espíritos que nem se alegram muito nem sofrem muito, porque eles vivem no crepúsculo cinzento que não conhece vitória ou derrota.”

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Falha , Vitória

“Transpira e serás salvo.”

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“A conquista pode ser repleta de mal ou bem para a humanidade, de acordo com o valor comparativo entre o povo que conquistou e o conquistado.”

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“Quando se faz a chamada no senado, os senadores não sabem quando devem responder presenteou inocente.”

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“A morte é sempre e em todas as circunstâncias uma tragédia, pois, se não o é, quer dizer que a própria vida passou a ser uma tragédia.”

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De morte , De vida

“Estamos face a face com nosso destino, e devemos encontrá-lo com muita coragem e resolução. Para nós é a vida de ação, da extenuante performance do dever; deixe-nos viver nos arreios, esforçando-nos vigorosamente; deixe-nos correr o risco de nos desgastarmos do que enferrujarmos.”

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De destino , De vida , Coragem

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“Quando você está no final da sua corda, dê um nó e segure-se.”

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“Eu posso ser presidente dos Estados Unidos ou posso controlar Alice. Não posso fazer as duas coisas.”

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“Nós, dos Estados Unidos, precisamos acima de tudo lembrar que”

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“Os dois sentimentos, inveja e arrogância, são apenas lados opostos do mesmo escudo, mas desenvolvimentos diferentes do mesmo espírito.”

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Inveja

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“Cometeremos erros; e se deixarmos que esses erros nos assustem com o trabalho, mostraremos a nós mesmos fracos.”

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Erro

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“Coragem não é ter forças para continuar; é continuar mesmo quando você não tem forças.”

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Coragem

Theodore Roosevelt: Frases em inglês

“As a people we claim the right to speak with peculiar emphasis for freedom and for fair treatment of all men without regard to differences of race, fortune, creed or color. We forfeit the right so to speak when we commit or condone such crimes as these of which I speak.”

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1900s, Letter to Winfield T. Durbin (1903)

“When, in the slow procession of the ages, man was developed on this planet, the change worked by his appearance was at first slight. Further ages passed while he groped and struggled by infinitesimal degrees upward through the lower grades of savagery; for the general law is that life which is advanced and complex, whatever its nature, changes more quickly than simpler and less advanced forms. The life of savages changes and advances with extreme slowness, and groups of savages influence one another but little. The first rudimentary beginnings of that complex life of communities which we call civilization marked a period when man had already long been by far the most important creature on the planet. The history of the living world had become, in fact, the history of man, and therefore something totally different in kind as well as in degree from what it had been before.”

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1910s, The World Movement (1910)

“Surely such a union of indomitable resolution in the achievement of a given purpose, with patience and moderation in the policy pursued, and with kindly charity and consideration and friendliness to those of opposite belief, marks the very spirit in which we of to-day should approach the pressing problems of the present. These problems have to do with securing a more just and generally wide spread welfare, so that there may be a more substantial measure of equality in moral and physical well-being among the people.”

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1910s, The Progressives, Past and Present (1910)

“The nation, like the individual, cannot commit a crime with impunity. If we are guilty of lawlessness and brutal violence, whether our guilt consists in active participation therein or in mere connivance and encouragement, we shall assuredly suffer later on because of what we have done. The cornerstone of this republic, as of all free governments, is respect for and obedience to the law. Where we permit the law to be defied or evaded, whether by rich man or poor man, by black man or white, we are by just so much weakening the bonds of our civilization and increasing the chances of its overthrow, and of the substitution therefore of a system in which there shall be violent alternations of anarchy and tyranny.”

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1900s, Letter to Winfield T. Durbin (1903)

“The man who does nothing cuts the same sordid figure in the pages of history, whether he be a cynic, or fop, or voluptuary. There is little use for the being whose tepid soul knows nothing of great and generous emotion, of the high pride, the stern belief, the lofty enthusiasm, of the men who quell the storm and ride the thunder.”

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1910s, Citizenship in a Republic (1910)

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

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"How Not To Better Social Conditions" in Review of Reviews (January 1897), p. 39 https://books.google.com/books?id=J2FAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA39 · Full text online (with at least two typos — in the last sentence of the article) as "How Not To Help Our Poor Brother" http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/images/research/speeches/trhnthopb.pdf
1890s

“For example, throughout the long contest, extending over several decades, on the free [silver] coinage question, the existence of this motto on the coins was a constant source of jest and ridicule; and this was unavoidable. Everyone must remember the innumerable cartoons and articles based on phrases like 'In God we trust for the other eight cents'; 'In God we trust for the short weight'; 'In god we trust for the thirty-seven cents we do not pay'; and so forth and so forth. Surely I am well within bounds when I say that a use of the phrase which invites constant levity of this type is most undesirable.”

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1900s, "In God we Trust" letter (1907)

“If our farmers now used the wasteful methods that served for their great grand-fathers they would not merely fail in the present, but would work a grave wrong to the American citizens of the future. In the same way we must apply new political methods to meet the new political needs, or else we shall stiffer, and our children also.”

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1910s, The Progressives, Past and Present (1910)

“This matter of lynching would be a terrible thing even if it stopped with the lynching of men guilty of the inhuman and hideous crime of rape; but, as a matter of fact, lawlessness of this type never does stop and never can stop in such fashion. Every violent man in the community is encouraged by every case of lynching, in which the lynchers go unpunished, to himself take the law into his own hands whenever it suits his own convenience. In the same way the use of torture by the mob in certain cases is sure to spread until it is applied more or less indiscriminately in other cases.”

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1900s, Letter to Winfield T. Durbin (1903)

“One of the prime dangers of civilization has always been its tendency to cause the loss of virile fighting virtues, of the fighting edge. When men get too comfortable and lead too luxurious lives, there is always danger lest the softness eat like an acid into their manliness of fibre. The barbarian, because of the very conditions of his life, is forced to keep and develop certain hardy qualities which the man of civilization tends to lose, whether he be clerk, factory hand, merchant, or even a certain type of farmer.”

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1910s, The World Movement (1910)

“It is a wicked thing to be neutral between right and wrong. Impartiality does not mean neutrality. Impartial justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.”

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Fonte: 1910s, Fear God and Take Your Own Part (1916), p. 26

“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in that grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”

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1900s, The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses (1900), The Strenuous Life
Variante: Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

“There are good citizens and bad citizens in every class as in every locality, and the attitude of decent people toward great public and social questions should be determined, not by the accidental questions of employment or locality, but by those deep-set principles which represent the innermost souls of men.”

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1900s, A Square Deal (1903)

“Unjust war is to be abhorred; but woe to the nation that does not make ready to hold its own in time of need against all who would harm it! And woe thrice over to the nation in which the average man loses the fighting edge, loses the power to serve as a soldier if the day of need should arise!”

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1910s, The World Movement (1910)

“In every civilized society property rights must be carefully safeguarded; ordinarily, and in the great majority of cases, human rights and property rights are fundamentally and in the long run identical; but when it clearly appears that there is a real conflict between them, human rights must have the upper hand, for property belongs to man and not man to property.”

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1910s, Citizenship in a Republic (1910)

“There are two kinds of success to be won. In the first place, there is success in doing the thing that can only be done by the exceptional man. Therefore most of us can not achieve this kind of success. It comes only to the man who has very exceptional qualities. The other kind, a very, very high kind, is the ordinary kind of success, the success that comes to the man who does the things which most men could do, but which they do not do; which comes to the man who develops or possesses to a higher degree the qualities that all of us have to a greater or less extent. In the history of the world some of the men who stand high who stand in all but the very highest places are those who have not possessed any wonderful genius in statecraft, war, art, literature in whatever calling; but who have developed within themselves, by long, patient effort, resolutely maintained in spite of repeated failure, the ordinary, everyday, humdrum qualities of courage, of resolution, of proper appreciation of the relative importance of things; of honesty, of truth, of good sense, of unyielding perseverance. We can each one of us develop to a very high degree these qualities; and if we do so develop them, each one of us is sure of a measure of success […].”

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1900s, Address at the Prize Day Exercises at Groton School (1904)

“I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.”

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Speech to the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen in Chattanooga, Tennessee (8 September 2013). http://books.google.de/books?id=7_3uugarOF0C&pg=PA105&lpg=PA105&dq=theodore+roosevelt+I+don't+pity+any+man+who+does+hard+work+worth+doing.+I+admire+him.+I+pity+the+creature+who+does+not+work,+at+whichever+end+of+the+social+scale+he+may+regard+himself+as+being.&source=bl&ots=seVM4pX9IN&sig=gd7yTZMy3X2h6rIgQVVp5uR0Xu4&hl=de&sa=X&ei=M5FZUvW4M8LXtQby1YD4AQ&ved=0CG8Q6AEwCTgK#v=onepage&q=theodore%20roosevelt%20I%20don't%20pity%20any%20man%20who%20does%20hard%20work%20worth%20doing.%20I%20admire%20him.%20I%20pity%20the%20creature%20who%20does%20not%20work%2C%20at%20whichever%20end%20of%20the%20social%20scale%20he%20may%20regard%20himself%20as%20being.&f=false
1900s

“And those who oppose all reform will do well to remember that ruin in its worst form is inevitable if our National life brings us nothing whatever but a swollen and badly distributed material prosperity. In other words, I feel that material interests are chieﬂy good, not in themselves, but as an indispensable foundation upon which we should build a higher superstructure, a superstructure without which the foundation becomes worthless. Therefore I believe that the destinies of this country should be shaped primarily by moral forces, and by material forces only as they are subordinated to these moral forces.”

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1910s, The Progressives, Past and Present (1910)

“As regards capital cases, the trouble is that emotional men and women always see only the individual whose fate is up at the moment, and neither his victim nor the many millions of unknown individuals who would in the long run be harmed by what they ask. Moreover, almost any criminal, however brutal, has usually some person, often a person whom he has greatly wronged, who will plead for him. If the mother is alive she will always come, and she cannot help feeling that the case in which she is so concerned is peculiar, that in this case a pardon should be granted. It was really heartrending to have to see the kinfolk and friends of murderers who were condemned to death, and among the very rare occasions when anything governmental or official caused me to lose sleep were times when I had to listen to some poor mother making a plea for a "criminal" so wicked, so utterly brutal and depraved, that it would have been a crime on my part to remit his punishment.
On the other hand, there were certain crimes where requests for leniency merely made me angry. Such crimes were, for instance, rape, or the circulation of indecent literature, or anything connected with what would now be called the "white slave" traffic, or wife murder, or gross cruelty to women or children, or seduction and abandonment, or the action of some man in getting a girl whom he seduced to commit abortion. In an astonishing number of these cases men of high standing signed petitions or wrote letters asking me to show leniency to the criminal. In two or three of the cases — one where some young roughs had committed rape on a helpless immigrant girl, and another in which a physician of wealth and high standing had seduced a girl and then induced her to commit abortion — I rather lost my temper, and wrote to the individuals who had asked for the pardon, saying that I extremely regretted that it was not in my power to increase the sentence. I then let the facts be made public, for I thought that my petitioners deserved public censure. Whether they received this public censure or not I did not know, but that my action made them very angry I do know, and their anger gave me real satisfaction.”

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Fonte: 1910s, Theodore Roosevelt — An Autobiography (1913), Ch. VIII : The New York Governorship

“Throughout our history the success of the homemaker has been but another name for the up-building of the nation.”

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1900s, The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses (1900), National Duties

“If, as you hold, the great hulk of the colored people are not yet fit in point of character and influence to hold such positions, it seems to me that it is worth while putting a premium upon the effort among them to achieve the character and standing which will fit them.”

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As quoted in speech by Edward de Veaux Morrell https://cdn.loc.gov/service/rbc/lcrbmrp/t2609/t2609.pdf (April 1904)
1900s

“To take charge of the most important work under my administration, the building of the Panama Canal, I chose General Goethals. Both of his parents were born in Holland. But he was just plain United States. He wasn't a Dutch-American; if he had been I wouldn't have appointed him. So it was with such men, among those who served under me, as Admiral Osterhaus and General Barry. The father of one was born in Germany, the father of the other in Ireland. But they were both Americans, pure and simple, and first-rate fighting men in addition.”

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1910s, Address to the Knights of Columbus (1915)

“Political parties exist to secure responsible government and to execute the will of the people. From these great tasks both of the old parties have turned aside. Instead of instruments to promote the general welfare they have become the tools of corrupt interests, which use them impartially to serve their selfish purposes. Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.”

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"The Progressive Covenant With The People" http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/papr:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(trrs+1146))+@field(COLLID+roosevelt)) speech (August 1912)
1910s
Contexto: Political parties exist to secure responsible government and to execute the will of the people. From these great tasks both of the old parties have turned aside. Instead of instruments to promote the general welfare they have become the tools of corrupt interests, which use them impartially to serve their selfish purposes. Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics, is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.

“The only safe rule is to promise little, and faithfully to keep every promise; to "speak softly and carry a big stick."”

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Ch. XV : The Peace of Righteousness http://books.google.com/books?id=Io4fAAAAIAAJ&q=%22The+only+safe+rule+is+to+promise+little+and+faithfully+to+keep+every+promise+to+speak+softly+and+carry+a+big+stick%22&pg=PA537#v=onepage
1910s, Theodore Roosevelt — An Autobiography (1913)

“In name we had the Declaration of Independence in 1776; but we gave the lie by our acts to the words of the Declaration of Independence until 1865; and words count for nothing except in so far as they represent acts. This is true everywhere; but, O my friends, it should be truest of all in political life. A broken promise is bad enough in private life. It is worse in the field of politics. No man is worth his salt in public life who makes on the stump a pledge which he does not keep after election; and, if he makes such a pledge and does not keep it, hunt him out of public life. I care for the great deeds of the past chiefly as spurs to drive us onward in the present. I speak of the men of the past partly that they may be honored by our praise of them, but more that they may serve as examples for the future.”

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1910s, The New Nationalism (1910)

“The one sure way to have secured the defeat of every good principle worth fighting for would have been to have permitted the fight to be changed into one along sectarian lines and inspired by the spirit of sectarian bitterness, either for the purpose of putting into public life or of keeping out of public life the believers in any given creed. Such conduct represents an assault upon Americanism. The man guilty of it is not a good American. I hold that in this country there must be complete severance of Church and State; that public moneys shall not be used for the purpose of advancing any particular creed; and therefore that the public schools shall be non-sectarian. As a necessary corollary to this, not only the pupils but the members of the teaching force and the school officials of all kinds must be treated exactly on a par, no matter what their creed; and there must be no more discrimination against Jew or Catholic or Protestant than discrimination in favor of Jew, Catholic or Protestant. Whoever makes such discrimination is an enemy of the public schools.”

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1910s, Address to the Knights of Columbus (1915)
Contexto: For thirty-five years I have been more or less actively engaged in public life, in the performance of my political duties, now in a public position, now in a private position. I have fought with all the fervor I possessed for the various causes in which with all my heart I believed; and in every fight I thus made I have had with me and against me Catholics, Protestants, and Jews. There have been times when I have had to make the fight for or against some man of each creed on ground of plain public morality, unconnected with questions of public policy. There were other times when I have made such a fight for or against a given man, not on grounds of public morality, for he may have been morally a good man, but on account of his attitude on questions of public policy, of governmental principle. In both cases, I have always found myself 4 fighting beside, and fighting against, men of every creed. The one sure way to have secured the defeat of every good principle worth fighting for would have been to have permitted the fight to be changed into one along sectarian lines and inspired by the spirit of sectarian bitterness, either for the purpose of putting into public life or of keeping out of public life the believers in any given creed. Such conduct represents an assault upon Americanism. The man guilty of it is not a good American. I hold that in this country there must be complete severance of Church and State; that public moneys shall not be used for the purpose of advancing any particular creed; and therefore that the public schools shall be non-sectarian. As a necessary corollary to this, not only the pupils but the members of the teaching force and the school officials of all kinds must be treated exactly on a par, no matter what their creed; and there must be no more discrimination against Jew or Catholic or Protestant than discrimination in favor of Jew, Catholic or Protestant. Whoever makes such discrimination is an enemy of the public schools.

“The performance of duty, and not an indulgence in vapid ease and vapid pleasure, is all that makes life worth while.”

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Chapter V Applied Idealism http://www.bartleby.com/55/5.html
1910s, Theodore Roosevelt — An Autobiography (1913)

“If we lose the virile, manly qualities, and sink into a nation of mere hucksters, putting gain over national honor, and subordinating everything to mere ease of life, then we shall indeed reach a condition worse than that of the ancient civilizations in the years of their decay.”

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"The Law of Civilization and Decay", The Forum (January 1897), reprinted in American Ideals (1926), vol. 13 of The Works of Theodore Roosevelt, national ed., chapter 15, pp. 259–60
1890s