From the very beginning our people have markedly combined practical capacity for affairs with power of devotion to an ideal. The lack of either capacity would have rendered the other of small value.
Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism… Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all. This is just as true of the man who puts ‘native’ before the hyphen as of the man who […]
We can have no “50-50” allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.
The professors of every form of hyphenated Americanism are as truly the foes of this country as if they dwelled outside its borders and made active war against it. Once it was true that this country could not endure half free and half slave. Today it is true that it can not endure half American […]
We have not got room for hyphenated Americans: German-Americans; Irish-Americans; we want Americans pure and simple.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who […]
We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with a high and resolute courage. For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.
The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk, we must act big.
