A gentleman does not boast, bluster or bully; he does not insult others.
Editor's note · Context
Remarks at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville
Share & report
More from Teddy Roosevelt
No man is worth his salt in public life who makes on the stump a pledge which he does not keep after election; and, if he makes such a pledge and does not keep it, hunt him out of public life.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
Character must show itself in the man's performance both of the duty he owes himself and of the duty he owes the State.
It is hereby ordered that two small islands of the Pribilof group, located approximately in latitude fifty-seven degrees north, longitude one hundred and seventy degrees west from Greenwich, be and same are hereby reserved.





