Theodore Roosevelt Quotes About Peace
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The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.
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We wish peace, but we wish the peace of justice, the peace of righteousness. We wish it because we think it is right and not because we are afraid.
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If we seek merely swollen, slothful ease and ignoble peace, if we shrink from the hard contests where men must win at the hazard of their lives and at the risk of all they hold dear, then bolder and stronger peoples will pass us by, and will win for themselves the domination of the world.
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Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.
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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.
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No triumph of peace is quite so great as the supreme triumphs of war.
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Councils of War never fight.
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Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual; and neither a nation nor an individual can surrender conscience to another's keeping.
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Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.
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Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
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There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a democrat like myself must admit this. But there is absolutely nothing to be said for government by a plutocracy, for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with the money touch, but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers.
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Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.
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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, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
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No triumph of peace can equal the armed triumph of war.
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...to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.
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To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.
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Theodore Roosevelt
- Born: October 27, 1858
- Died: January 6, 1919
- Occupation: 26th U.S. President
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