Teddy Tweets

“A man is worthless unless he has in him a lofty devotion to an ideal.”

The Outlook July 28, 1900

“If as a nation we are split into warring camps, if we teach our citizens not to look upon one another as brothers but as enemies divided by the hatred of creed for creed, surely we shall fail.”

Speech in New York City October 12, 1915

“No man is fit to hold the position of President of the United States at all unless as President he feels that he represents no party but the people as a whole.”

Speech in the New York Assembly March 2, 1883

“I would rather go out of politics feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I had acted as I ought not to.”

Speech in the New York Assembly March 2, 1883

“In a government like ours, a man can accomplish anything only by acting in combination with others.”

Forum, July, 1894

“It is always easy for an individual or a party to make promises; the strain comes when the party or individual has to make them good.”

Speech in Baltimore, MD,
February 23, 1889

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“In this country we must all stand together absolutely without regard to our several lines of descent, as Americans and nothing else.”

Fear God and Take Your Own Part,1916

“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President or any other public official save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country.”

Metropolitan Magazine,May, 1918

“We believe with all our hearts in democracy; in the capacity of the people to govern themselves; and we are bound to succeed.”

Speech in Saratoga, New YorkSeptember 27, 1910

“Christmas was an occasion of literally delirious joy. In the evening we hung up our stockings — or rather the biggest stockings we could borrow from the grown-ups — and before dawn we trooped in to open them while sitting on father’s and mother’s bed; and the bigger presents were arranged, those for each child on its own table, in the drawing-room, the doors to which were thrown open after breakfast. I never knew anyone else have what seemed to me such attractive Christmases, and in the next generation I tried to reproduce them exactly for my own children.”

An Autobiography 1913