Quotes from A Square Deal — Theodore Roosevelt
1858–1919 United States
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Life can mean nothing worth meaning, unless its prime aim is the doing of duty, the achievement of results worth achieving.
A Square Deal (1903)
A healthy republican government must rest upon individuals, not upon classes or sections.
A Square Deal (1903)
The two feelings, envy and arrogance, are but opposite sides of the same shield, but different developments of the same spirit.
A Square Deal (1903)
We must treat each man on his worth and merits as a man. We must see that each is given a square deal, because he is entitled to no more and should receive no less.
A Square Deal (1903)
From the greatest to the smallest, happiness and usefulness are largely found in the same soul, and the joy of life is won in its deepest and truest sense only by those who have not shirked life's burdens.
A Square Deal (1903)
The death-knell of the Republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others.
A Square Deal (1903)
The good citizen is the man who, whatever his wealth or his poverty, strives manfully to do his duty to himself, to his family, to his neighbor, to the States; who is incapable of the baseness which manifests itself either in arrogance or in envy, but who while demanding justice for himself is no less scrupulous to do justice to others.
A Square Deal (1903)
There must be ever present in our minds the fundamental truth that in a republic such as ours the only safety is to stand neither for nor against any man because he is rich or because he is poor, because he is engaged in one occupation or another, because he works with his brains or because he works with his hands.
A Square Deal (1903)