#no

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#allegiance #behind #government #invisible #ostensible

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#american public #announce #criticism #morally #must

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#done #enough #executive #good #good people

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#honorable #i #leave #name #one thing

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#best #better #condition #difficult #easy

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. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#get #great #had #his #known

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#ease #i #i wish #ignoble #life

Cruelty to men and to the lower animals as well, which would have passed unnoticed a century ago, now shocks the sensibilities and is regarded as wicked and degrading. ↗

— Elihu Root

#century #cruelty #degrading #lower #lower animals

Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice. ↗

— Elihu Root

#come #control #exclude #generations #human

An Abel Muranda without his wife and children would be a wandering bachelor without any dignity. He would sleep in caves and feed on wild berries. But no matter how lonely life became, he would never come to a place like this ↗

— Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

#flame-lily #great-zimbabwe #hangman #mystrey #parnormal