Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.
Theodore Roosevelt

Great, Done, Effort

The American people abhor a vacuum.
Theodore Roosevelt

American, Vacuum, Abhor

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
Theodore Roosevelt

Life, Wish, Preach

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.
Theodore Roosevelt

Great, Big, Poor

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.
Theodore Roosevelt

Success, Children, Lose

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.
Theodore Roosevelt

Peace, Time, Great

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.
Theodore Roosevelt

Peace, Great, War

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: President

Born: October 27, 1858

Died: January 6, 1919

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