A just war is in the long run far better for a man's soul than the most prosperous peace.
- Theodore Roosevelt
More Quotes By Theodore Roosevelt
- Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not...
- A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace.
- The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living,...
- If we seek merely swollen, slothful ease and ignoble peace, if we shrink from the hard contests where...
- We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort; the...
- … the Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war, and the failure to act against Turkey...
- The great body of our citizens shoot less as times goes on. We should encourage rifle practice among...
- There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the...
- The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled,...
- In the long run, the most unpleasant truth is a safer companion than a pleasant falsehood.
- Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations...
- The one characteristic more essential than any other is foresight… It should be the growing nation with a...
- Everything is un-American that tends either to government by a plutocracy or government by a mob. To divide...
- But this is predicated upon the man’s becoming in very fact an American and nothing but an American....
- Any man who tries to excite class hatred, sectional hate, hate of creeds, any kind of hatred in...
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