Teddy Tweets

“A great free people owes it to itself and to all mankind not to sink into helplessness before the powers of evil.”

Fourth Annual Message to Congress, December 6, 1904

“Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.”

Fear God and Take Your Own Part, 1916

“Diplomacy is utterly useless where there is no force behind it.”

Speech at the Naval War College, June 2, 1897

“In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard; don’t foul and don’t shirk, but hit the line hard!”

The Strenuous Life, 1900

“Intelligent foresight in preparation and known capacity to stand well in battle are the surest safeguards against war.”

Preface to Hero Tales, 1895

“My whole foreign policy was based on the exercise of intelligent forethought and of decisive action sufficiently far in advance of any likely crisis to make it improbable that we would run into serious trouble.”

Theodore Roosevelt, An Autobiography, 1913

“Fellow-feeling, sympathy in the broadest sense, is the most important factor in producing a healthy political and social life.”

In Century, January 1900

“It is the doer of deeds who actually counts in the battle for life, and not the man who looks on and says how the fight ought to be fought.”

Atlantic Monthly August 1894

“Our relations with the other powers of the world are important; but still more important are our relations among ourselves.”

Inaugural Address March 4, 1905

“The poorest of all emotions for any American citizen to feel is the emotion of hatred toward his fellows.”

Speech in Oyster Bay, NY July 4, 1906