Theodore Roosevelt Quotes About Socialism
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The very reason why we object to state ownership, that it puts a stop to individual initiative and to the healthy development of personal responsibility, is the reason why we object to an unsupervised, unchecked monopolistic control in private hands. We urge control and supervision by the nation as an antidote to the movement for state socialism. Those who advocate total lack of regulation, those who advocate lawlessness in the business world, themselves give the strongest impulse to what I believe would be the deadening movement toward unadulterated state socialism.
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The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.
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The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.
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Those who advocate total lack of regulation, those who advocate lawlessness in the business world, themselves give the strongest impulse to what I believe would be the deadening movement toward unadulterated state socialism.
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No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.
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We can just as little afford to follow the doctrinaires of an extreme individualism as the doctrinaires of an extreme socialism.
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There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100% Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else
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Much of the discussion about socialism and individualism is entirely pointless, because of failure to agree on terminology.
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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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