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More Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt
This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.
Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready.
Nothing worth having was ever achieved without effort.
Most of us tiptoe through life in order to make it safely to death.
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.
Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of today.
Do Something Now. If not you, who? If not here, where? If not now, when?
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.
It is the people, and not the judges, who are entitled to say what their constitution means, for the constitution is theirs, it belongs to them and not to their servants in office—any other theory is incompatible with the foundation principles of our government.
