Teddy Tweets

“There is not a man of us here who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and then shame upon him who will not stretch out the helping hand to his brother.”

Speech in Pasadena, CA
May 8, 1903

“There can be no greater mistake from the democratic point of view, nothing more ruinous can be imagined from the point of view of a true democracy, than to believe that democracy means absence of leadership.”

Speech in New York City
November 16, 1916

“In America today all sure people are summoned to service and sacrifice.”

In the Metropolitan
October 1918

“We cannot do great deeds as a nation unless we are willing to do the small things that make up the sum of greatness.”

Speech in New York City
May 30, 1899

“I hold no other class of people in our community in quite the regard that I hold the American teacher who is moulding the American nation of tomorrow.”

Speech before the Iowa State Teachers Association
November 4, 1910

“The first requisite of a good citizen in this Republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight.”

Speech in New York
November 11, 1902

“It is not the critic who counts… the credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly… who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

Speech in Paris
April 23, 1910

“No man is above the law and no man is below it.”

Third Annual Message
December 7, 1903

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

Fear God and Take Your Own Part
1916

“Government by the people means that the people have the right to do their own thinking and to do their own speaking about their public servants.”

In the Kansas City Star
April 6, 1918