Theodore Roosevelt

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you read more

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.

Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?

Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure than to take read more

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

I feel like a Bull Moose.
- Theodore Roosevelt,

I feel like a Bull Moose.
- Theodore Roosevelt,

The spirit of brotherhood recognizes of necessity both the need of self-help and also the need of helping others in read more

The spirit of brotherhood recognizes of necessity both the need of self-help and also the need of helping others in the only way which every ultimately does great god, that is, of helping them to help themselves.