Theodore Roosevelt – ‘The first requisite of a goo…
‘The first requisite of a good citizen in this Republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight.’
‘The first requisite of a good citizen in this Republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight.’
‘It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home.’
‘When they call the roll in the Senate the Senators do not know whether to answer Present or Not Guilty.’
‘The men and women who have the right ideals … are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty.’
‘I am as strong as a bull moose and you can use me to the limit.’
‘The great lawyer who employs his talent and his learning in the highly emunerative task of enabling a very wealthy client to override or circumvent the law is doing all that in him lies to encourage the growth in the country of a spirit of dumb anger against all laws and of disbelief in their [...]
‘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 grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.’
‘I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.’
‘The man who holds that every human right is secondary to his profit must now give way to the advocate of human welfare.’
‘Put out the light.’