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.

Quote by Theodore Roosevelt

Topics: American Quotes

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If...

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If...

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the...

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the...

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do...

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do...

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble,...

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble,...

Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man...

Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man...

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to...

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to...

No ordinary work done by a man is either as hard or as responsible as...

No ordinary work done by a man is either as hard or as responsible as...

Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihoodthe virtues that made...

Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihoodthe virtues that made...

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do...

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do...

I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than...

I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than...

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that...

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that...

War is not merely justifiable, but imperative upon honorable men, upon an honorable nation, where...

War is not merely justifiable, but imperative upon honorable men, upon an honorable nation, where...

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is...

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is...

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic, is of altogether...

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic, is of altogether...

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it...

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it...

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals...

The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals...

Absence is to love what wind is to a fire; it puts out the little,...

Absence is to love what wind is to a fire; it puts out the little,...

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have...

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have...