Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

We cannot avoid facing the fact that we occupied a new place among the people of the world… Our flag is a proud flag, and it stands for liberty and civilization. Where it has once floated, there must be no return to tyranny.

The altar of liberty totters when it is cemented only with blood

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

When under siege, if we do not stand for our liberties and for the liberties of those who are unable to stand for themselves, then the great American experience will come to an end.

It is hard to know how many people do, but given that the people are so docile towards the rulers, nowadays, very few Americans show the passion for freedom that our forefathers had.

I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood, human blood, and if our liberties are lost, we shall never regain them except at the price of blood. They must not be lost.

Give me liberty or give me death.

A traitor is a good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty.

The flag is the guarantor and symbol of equality.

The time has come for you to decide whether Italians shall die for Mussolini and Hitler, or live for Italy and for civilization.

Socialism holds nothing but unhappiness for the human race. It destroys personal initiative, wipes out national pride ... and plays into the hands of the autocrats.... Socialism is the end of fanatics, the sophistry of so-called intelligentsia, and it has no place in the hearts of those who would secure and fight for freedom and preserve democracy.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Freedom: ah! I can say it without phrases ... and it is my belief that I have never loved her more, never served her better on this day when I am doing my best to unmask her enemies, who deck themselves out in her colours, who usurp her flag to soil it, to dishonor it.

Peoples, in their constant efforts for the triumph of the ideal of liberty and justice, are forced, at precise historical moments, to make their greatest sacrifices. Our beloved country has reached one of those moments.

The tree of liberty could not grow were it not watered with the blood of tyrants

In this war we are not fighting against you, the German people, for whom we have no bitter feeling, but against a tyrannous and forsworn regime which has betrayed not only its own people but the whole of Western civilization and all that you and we hold dear.

Let cannon and bell at high noon call the people from sport or study or toil, to reflection on that great life so nobly lived. Let the universal display from tenement to State House of the flag of the United States of America remind the people that our country is the United States because of Abraham Lincoln.

Our flag is the symbol of America. I want you to grasp what America really is. It is more than marks on a map. It is more than buildings and land. America is a living structure of human lives, of all the American lives that ever were and ever will be.

We are hated because we are free. We are hated because of the idea that is the United States of America. We are hated because of our Constitution.

I happen to be a big fan of Western civilization; I think it beats the hell out of tyranny and starvation.

In vain they seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the flag and the Constitution stand for. Now, as always, they stand for democracy, not tyranny; for freedom, not subjection; and against a dictatorship by mob rule and the over-privileged alike.

The flag still stands for freedom and they can't take that away.

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

America's honor, your honor is at stake. Go out and preserve the greatest country in the history of the world.

Where the law ends tyranny begins.