Theodore Roosevelt: Zitate auf Englisch (seite 11)

“Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.”

“In life, as in football, the principle to follow is to hit the line hard.”

“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing”

“A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.”

“The worst of all fears is the fear of living”

“Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.”

“The teachings of the Bible are so interwoven and entwined with our whole civic and social life that it would be literally impossible for us to figure to ourselves what that life would be if these teaching were removed.”

“90% of the work in this country is done
by people who don't feel good".”

“For those who fight for it life has a flavor the sheltered will never know”

“Comparison is the thief of joy.”

“Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work is as valuable as that of a man it should be paid as highly.”

“I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.”

“No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we require him to obey it. Obedience to the law is demanded as a right; not asked as a favor.”

“The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value.”

“The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided, but NEVER hit softly.”

“All the resources we need are in the mind.”

“It tires me to talk to rich men. You expect a man of millions, the head of a great industry, to be a man worthhearing; but as a rule they don't know anything outside their own business.”

“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official.”

“I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!”