Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

Theodore Roosevelt was 26th in the list of Presidents of the United States. He was the Assistant Secretary of the Navy, when he prescribed war against Spain, because he wanted to set Cuba free from the Spanish rule. In 1901, he became the President, after the assassination of President William McKinley. As a President, Roosevelt authorized buying of work done on the Panama Canal by the French. He said, "No single great material work which remains to be undertaken on this continent is as of such consequence to the American people." In 1905, he drew up the Treaty of Portsmouth, in which Japan agreed to the American control over Philippines, and Russia agreed to the Japanese control over Korea. In 1906, he won the Nobel Peace Prize for arranging this peace between Russia and Japan, who were both fighting over Korea.

In 1907, he orchestrated the Second Hague Peace Conference, in which there was a disagreement on the matter of arms control. This was because Germany didn't want the restrictions on its navy. There were also differences in the matter of the settling of disputes. But there was unison on the matters of rules of war and rights of neutrals. In 1912, William Howard Taft was renominated by the Republican Party and Roosevelt became the nominee for the Progressive Party that ran under the "New Nationalism" platform. However, Democratic contender Woodrow Wilson won the election by an overwhelming margin, while Roosevelt came second and Taft third. In 1930, Roosevelt requested altruists to help the territory of Puerto Rico.

The following are some quotes by Theodore Roosevelt:

"I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life." He made this quote in Chicago, Illinois on April 10, 1899.

"Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it." He made this quote at the Grand Canyon, Arizona on May 6, 1903. He was commenting on how people should treat the Grand Canyon.

"A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards." He made this quote at the Lincoln Monument in Springfield, Illinois on June 4, 1903.

"No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it." He made this quote in the 'Third Annual Message' to Congress, on December 7, 1903.

"Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people." He made this quote in 1906.

"I am a part of everything that I have read." He made this quote in 1906.

"I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also." He made this quote during the 'Charter Day' exercises of the 'University of California', on March 25, 1911.

"Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe." He made this quote in his autobiography, which published in 1913.

"No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause." He made this quote in an article in 'The Harvard Advocate', on December 7, 1915.

"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." He made this quote in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, on September 30, 1917.

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public." He made this quote in an editorial about the World War I for 'Kansas City Star', on May 7, 1918.

"There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100 percent Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else." He made this quote in the Republican Convention in Saratoga, New York on July 18, 1918.

"A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad." He made this quote asserting that university education is not the most important.

"It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize." He made this quote while opining on labor rights.

We have a lot to learn from the sayings of Therodore Roosevelt - The man who encouraged creation of teddy bears and Batman, can also inspire us to greater heights.