Theodore Roosevelt Quotes and sayings--still good 120 years later

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I just got done watching a short film about Teddy Roosevelt's quotes and sayings; that he said during his political career. So I looked up some of them online: strangely still good for 2021:

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"We should keep steadily before our minds the fact that Americanism is a question of principle, of purpose, of idealism, of character; that it is not a matter of birthplace, or creed, or line of descent."

THEODORE ROOSEVELT, speech at the unveiling of the monument to General Sheridan, Nov. 25, 1908


 

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In a republic, to be successful we must learn to combine intensity of conviction with a broad tolerance of difference of conviction. Wide differences of opinion in matters of religious, political, and social belief must exist if conscience and intellect alike are not to be stunted, if there is to be room for healthy growth. Bitter internecine hatreds, based on such differences, are signs, not of earnestness of belief, but of that fanaticism which, whether religious or anti-religious, democratic or anti-democratic, is itself but a manifestation of the gloomy bigotry which has been the chief factor in the downfall of so many, many nations.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT, address delivered at the Sorbonne, Paris, Apr. 23, 1910
 
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There are still in certain parts of this country representatives of a class far from uncommon a quarter of a century ago, a class which regards an election as a game without rules in which it is merely a sign of cleverness to swindle and cheat.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT, speech at Progressive Party Convention, Chicago, Illinois, Jun. 17, 1912
 
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