Fear God and Take Your Own Part and Other Essays Quotes

“Not once in a thousand times is it possible to achieve anything worth achieving except by labor, by effort, by serious purpose and by the willingness to run risk.”
― Theodore Roosevelt, Fear God and Take Your Own Part and Other Essays

“Whether there are more people in the world or less, whether they are fat or lean, whether there are Fords or oxen, makes no vital difference; but whether men shall be willing to die for what they believe in makes all the difference between a pigsty and Paradise. Not by bread alone, Henry, shall men live.”
― Theodore Roosevelt, Fear God and Take Your Own Part and Other Essays

“This is the method of true democracy. In a free republic rights should only be allowed as corollaries to duties. No man has a right to vote who shirks his obligations to the state whether in peace or war.”
― Theodore Roosevelt, Fear God and Take Your Own Part and Other Essays