Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators. … It is not the wish of our government to impose upon you alien institutions.

If it [the American flag] is not defended, it is defamed. We can't forget the importance of the flag to the ideals of liberty and honor and freedom. To burn the flag, to dishonor it, is simply wrong.

The flag is the guarantor and symbol of equality.

Those who have a true understanding of America know that we have no desire for territorial expansion, for economic or other domination of other peoples. Such purposes are repugnant to our ideals of human freedom.

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.

What our men and women in uniform are doing is providing for the Iraqi people and other surrounding nations the opportunity to see, to taste and to experience the democracy that equals freedom and ultimately justice.

The American flag is an enduring symbol of liberty, democracy, and justice. It is fitting that the House act to protect it as we approach our nation's birthday, and as our men and women in uniform rally behind it in Iraq's battlefields.

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

America is the friend of all the liberties of the world. She is the guardian only of her own.

We’re not occupiers. We’re liberators.

If it [the American flag] is not defended, it is defamed.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in this world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

We cannot allow the American flag to be shot at anywhere on earth if we are to retain our respect and prestige.

Oh, honest Americans, as Christians hear me for my down-trodden people! Their form of government is as dear to them as yours is precious to you.

I believe that I should do what I could to maintain the dignity of American values and to give Americans some pride in the conduct their affairs.

Unmanacle the slave… unsceptre the despot… erect an altar on the Inquisition’s grace, to raise a people to the altitude of freedom.

Behold! in Liberty’s unclouded blaze We lift our heads, a race of other days.

I renew my call for the occupier [the United States] to leave our land. The departure of the occupier will mean stability for Iraq, victory for Islam and peace and defeat for terrorism and infidels.

The United States of America is the greatest gift to mankind.

No one expresses and demonstrates American values more than the American People.

Britain is at its best when we stand up for the values that we believe in.

American values don't begin and end with destroyers and aircraft carriers.

Empire and liberty.

Let's win the peace and democracy the good people of Iraq so richly deserve after decades of tyranny.

We do believe that freedom, the right to choose, the right to vote, respect and justice is the fundamental right of all people. All people must obtain these rights.