Teddy Tweets

“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

.pf-button.pf-button-excerpt { display: none; }  » Read more about: Wisdom from our 26th President – January 26, 2021  »

“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

“A wise and upright judge can render, and does render, in the long run, rather better service than can be rendered even by the right type of executive or legislative officer.”

Outlook March 4, 1911

“The prime and all-important lesson to learn is that while preparedness will not guarantee a nation against war, unpreparedness eventually insures not merely war, but utter disaster.”

MetropolitanAugust, 1915

“A man must have in him a strong and earnest sense of duty and the desire to accomplish good for the commonwealth, without regard to the effect upon himself.”

Proclamation October, 1892

“It is eminently fitting that once a year our people should set apart a day for praise and thanksgiving to the Giver of Good.”

Proclamation November 2, 1905

“There are many qualities which we need alike in private citizen and in public man… courage, honesty, and common sense.”

Inaugural Address as Governor January 2, 1899