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Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

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American President October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919

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Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big. Theodore Roosevelt
The great corporations which we have grown to speak of rather loosely as trusts are the creatures of the State, and the State not only has the right to control them, but it is duty bound to control them wherever the need of such control is shown. Theodore Roosevelt
Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body. Theodore Roosevelt
Our government, National and State, must be freed from the sinister influence or control of special interests. Exactly as the special interests of cotton and slavery threatened our political integrity before the Civil War, so now the great special business interests too often control and corrupt the men and methods of government for their own profit. We must drive the special interests out of politics. Theodore Roosevelt
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. We have to play it. All we can decide is whether we shall play it well or ill. Theodore Roosevelt
And it is through strife and the readiness for strife that a man or a nation must win greatness. So, let the world know that we are here and willing to pour out our blood, our treasure, our tears. And that America is ready and if need be desirous of battle Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt quote: "No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort."
No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort. Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt quote: "A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon..."
A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy. Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt quote: "It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the..."
It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer. Theodore Roosevelt
More and more it is evident that the State, and if necessary the nation, has got to possess the right of supervision and control as regards the great corporations which are its creatures. Theodore Roosevelt

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