The quotations of

Theodore Roosevelt

26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909

1858–1919

75 quotes, most often on America, Politics and Success. Part of the U.S. Presidents collection.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
Kansas City Star (7 May 1918)
- America
- Politics
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 living and the get rich quick theory of life.
Letter to S. Stanwood Menken, chairman, committee on Congress of Constructive Patriotism (January 10, 1917). Roosevelt’s sister, Mrs. Douglas Robinson, read the letter to a national meeting, January 26, 1917
- America
Americans learn only from catastrophe and not from experience.
- America
- Experience
In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.
- America
Our country offers the most wonderful example of democratic government on a giant scale that the world has ever seen; and the peoples of the world are watching to see whether we succeed or fail.
- America
It is not what we have that will make us a great nation; it is the way in which we use it.
- America
The American people are slow to wrath, but when their wrath is once kindled it burns like a consuming flame.
- America
This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.
Chicago, IL (17 June 1912)
- America
If we are to be a really great people, we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world.
The Strenuous Life (1899)
- America
We are all Americans. Our common interests are as broad as the continent.
The New Nationalism (1910)
- America
- Patriotism

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