Quote

There is apt to be a lunatic fringe among the votaries of any forward movement.

Theodore Roosevelt

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Theodore Roosevelt
Age: 60 †
Born: 1858
Born: October 27
Died: 1919
Died: January 6
26Th U.S. President
Autobiographer
Conservationist
Diarist
Essayist
Explorer
Historian
Naturalist
Ornithologist
Politician
Rancher
Teddy
Teddy Roosevelt
Theodore Teddy Roosevelt
T. Roosevelt
President Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Jr.
Forward
Among
Movement
Votaries
Fringe
Lunatic

More quotes by Theodore Roosevelt

Image
The one characteristic more essential than any other is foresight... It should be the growing nation with a future which takes the long look ahead.
Theodore Roosevelt
Image
All contributions by corporations to any political committee or for any political purpose should be forbidden by law
Theodore Roosevelt
Image
Work hard at work worth doing.
Theodore Roosevelt
Image
Americanism is a question of principle, of idealism, of character. It is not a matter of birthplace, or creed, or line of descent.
Theodore Roosevelt
Image
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
Theodore Roosevelt
Image
Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Theodore Roosevelt
Image
To announce there must be no criticism of the president or that we are to stand with the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
Theodore Roosevelt
Image
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 befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of today.
Theodore Roosevelt
Image
McKinley has no more backbone than a chocolate eclair.
Theodore Roosevelt
Image
Show me a man who makes no mistakes, and I will show you a man who doesn't do things.
Theodore Roosevelt
Image
We wish peace, but we wish the peace of justice, the peace of righteousness. We wish it because we think it is right and not because we are afraid.
Theodore Roosevelt
Image
I have already lived and enjoyed as much life as any nine other men I have known.
Theodore Roosevelt
Image
Performance should be made square with promise.
Theodore Roosevelt
Image
... looked at from the standpoint of the ultimate result, there was little real difference to the Indian whether the land was taken by treaty or by war. ... No treaty could be satisfactory to the whites, no treaty served the needs of humanity and civilization, unless it gave the land to the Americans as unreservedly as any successful war.
Theodore Roosevelt
Image
In foreign affairs we must make up our minds that whether we wish it or not, we are a great people and must play a great part in the world. It is not open to us to choose whether we will play that great part or not.
Theodore Roosevelt
Image
Then get busy and find out how to do it.
Theodore Roosevelt
Image
No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues and this without regard to whether the loss is due to the growth of a heartless and all-absorbing commercialism, to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality.
Theodore Roosevelt
Image
Thank God for the iron in the blood of our fathers
Theodore Roosevelt
Image
Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck, and to look upward to the celestial crown above them.... If they gradually grow to feel that the whole world is nothing but muck their power of usefulness is gone.
Theodore Roosevelt
Image
I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.
Theodore Roosevelt