While Teddy Roosevelt could have feet of clay at times, there's a lot he wrote that's eminently quotable and worthy of attention, a century later. #ddtb
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"It is a bad thing for a nation to raise and to admire a false standard of success; and there can be no falser standard than that set by the deification of material well-being in and for itself."
– T.R. speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, France, titled "Citizenship in a Republic" (aka "Man in the Arena"), 23 April 1910
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If you look at Gutenberg's Complete Lincoln, TR wrote the forward for that, and did it very well.
from your quotes collection, from this same speech, I found this timely (and use as a sig)
The good citizen will demand liberty for himself, and as a matter of pride he will see to it that others receive the liberty which he thus claims as his own. Probably the best test of true love of liberty in any country is the way in which minorities are treated in that country.
– Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) US President (1901-1909); “Citizenship in a Republic,” address, Sorbonne (23 Apr 1910)
and then his cousin said:
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) US President (1933-1945)
Second Inaugural Address (20 Jan 1937)
@Marina – The “Citizenship in a Republic” speech is one of TR’s most famous (and rightfully so).
TR could go on at over-length some times, but he could turn a fine, lucid, well-thought-out phrase.