The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of continuing to be a nation at all would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities. Theodore Roosevelt More Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt More Quotes From Theodore Roosevelt There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all. Theodore Roosevelt borncountryrooms Our country, we have faith to believe, is only at the beginning of its growth. Unless the forests of the United States can be made ready to meet the vast demands which this growth will inevitably bring, commercial disaster, that means disaster to the whole country, is inevitable. Theodore Roosevelt meanbelievecountry Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare Theodore Roosevelt efficiencycombinationcommon There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. Theodore Roosevelt presidentialcountryrooms In every community there are little knots of fantastic extremists who loudly proclaim that they are striving for righteousness, and who, in reality, do their feeble best for unrighteousness. Just as the upright politician should hold in peculiar scorn the man who makes the name of politician a reproach and a shame, so the genuine reformer should realize that the cause he champions is especially jeopardized by the mock reformer who does what he can to make reform a laughingstock among decent men. Theodore Roosevelt namesmenreality There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction. Theodore Roosevelt sorrowrealsuffering Thank God for the iron in the blood of our fathers Theodore Roosevelt ironfatherblood Those who advocate total lack of regulation, those who advocate lawlessness in the business world, themselves give the strongest impulse to what I believe would be the deadening movement toward unadulterated state socialism. Theodore Roosevelt would-begivingbelieve 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 heartlessluxuryloss A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless. Theodore Roosevelt futurecountrychildren It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws. Theodore Roosevelt ruinspoliticslaw While President, I have been President - emphatically. Theodore Roosevelt has-beenspresident All the resources we need are in the mind. Theodore Roosevelt resourcesmindneeds Work hard at work worth doing. Theodore Roosevelt day-jobslabor-daywork Envy is as evil a thing as arrogance. Theodore Roosevelt envyarroganceevil Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering. Theodore Roosevelt world-sufferingdistancemissing-you Abraham Lincoln - the spirit incarnate of those who won victory in the Civil War - was the true representative of this people, not only for his own generation, but for all time, because he was a man among men. Theodore Roosevelt menwarpeople I have often thought that unselfishness combined in one word more of the teachings of the Bible than any other in the language. Theodore Roosevelt one-wordlanguageteaching Our words must be judged by our deeds; and in striving for a lofty ideal we must use practical methods; and if we cannot attain all at one leap, we must advance towards it step by step, reasonably content so long as we do actually make some progress in the right direction. Theodore Roosevelt our-wordsprogresslong There is need of a sound body, and even more need of a sound mind. But above mind and above body stands character-the sum of those qualities which we mean when we speak of a man's force and courage, of his good faith and sense of honor. Theodore Roosevelt charactermenmean
