Theodore Roosevelt

The Nobel Peace Prize 1906

President, USA. International Peace Arbitrator, various treaties. Vigorous, businesslike. "We abhor bully, oppressor, in private or public life". Conservationist, protected 230,000,000 acres of public land.

After camping in Yosemite National Park, "It was like lying in a great solemn cathedral, far vaster and more beautiful than any built by man."

Humor/Quotations

1. CORRUPTION: 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 dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.

2. Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready.

3. We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when any one engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.

4. We must ever bear in mind that the great end in view is righteousness, justice as between man and man, nation and nation, the chance to lead our lives on a somewhat higher level, with a broader spirit of brotherly goodwill one for another.

5. Peace is generally good in itself, but it is never the highest good unless it comes as the handmaid of righteousness; and it becomes a very evil thing if it serves merely as a mask for cowardice and sloth, or as an instrument to further the ends of despotism or anarchy.

6. We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary.

7. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.

8. No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this without regard to whether the loss is due to the growth of a heartless and all-absorbing commercialism, to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality.

9. Words count only when they give expression to deeds, or are to be translated into them.

10. Many a tyrant has called it peace when he has scourged honest protest into silence

11. Our words must be judged by our deeds; and in striving for a lofty ideal we must use practical methods; and if we cannot attain all at one leap, we must advance towards it step by step.

12. I ask other nations to do only what I should be glad to see my own nation do

13. "It remains our clear duty to strive in every practicable way to bring nearer the time when the sword shall not be the arbiter among nations." President Theodore Roosevelt's fifth annual message to the U.S. Congress, December 5, 1905.

14. "World peace is coming, it certainly is coming, but only step by step." Roosevelt to Bertha von Suttner in White House, October 17, 1904.

“One comes to be of just such stuff as that on which the mind is set” - Maithri Upanishath, VI.34:3

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