Political Quotes

On the record
This mighty and free Republic should ever deal with all other States, great or small, on a basis of high honor, respecting their rights as jealously as it safeguards its own.
Said by
Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt insists that the U.S. should engage with all nations on a basis of honor and respect for rights.

Share

More from Teddy Roosevelt

Feb 23, 1912

Therefore I hope that so far as possible the people may be given the chance, through direct primaries, to express their preference as to who shall be the nominee of the Republican Presidential Convention.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Apr 22, 1910

The man who does nothing cuts the same sordid figure in the pages of history, whether he be cynic, or fop, or voluptuary.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Aug 30, 1910

I care for the great deeds of the past chiefly as spurs to drive us onward in the present.

presidency.ucsb.edu

Other voices in this conversation