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THE LEADERSHIP STYLE OF THEODORE "TEDDY" ROOSEVELT
The following Teddy Roosevelt quotes can be found in Edmund Morris, The
Rise Of Theodore Roosevelt Modern Library 2001)
"Cowardice in a race, as in an individual, is the unpardonable sin."
(Quoted in Edmund Morris, The Rise Of Theodore Roosevelt, p. 594)
"It may be that at some time in the dim future of the race the need for
war will vanish: but that time is yet ages distant. As yet no nation
can hold its place in the world, or can do any work really worth doing,
unless it stands ready to guard its right with an armed hand."
(Quoted in Edmund Morris, The Rise Of Theodore Roosevelt, p. 594)
"I have always been fond of the West African proverb: 'Speak softly and
carry a big stick; you will go far.'"
(Quoted in Edmund Morris, The Rise Of Theodore Roosevelt, p. 754)
"The government is us...You and me!"
(Quoted in Edmund Morris, Theodore Rex, p. 141)
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"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even
though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who
neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight
that knows not victory nor defeat."
(Speech before the Hamilton Club, Chicago, April 10, 1899)
"A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good
enough to be given a square deal afterwards."
(Speech, Springfield, Illinois, July 4, 1903)
"Every man holds his property subject to the general right of the
community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may
require it."
(Speech, Osawatomie, August 31, 1910)
"There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism...The one
absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin...would be to
permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities."
(Speech, New York, 1915)
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The Man With The Muck Rake
"In 'Pilgrim's
Progress' the Man with the Muck Rake is set forth as the example of him
whose vision is fixed on carnal instead of spiritual things. Yet he also
typifies the man who in this life consistently refuses to see aught that
is lofty, and fixes his eyes with solemn intentness only on that which is
vile and debasing.
Now, it is very
necessary that we should not flinch from seeing what is vile and debasing.
There is filth on the floor, and it must be scraped up with the muck rake;
and there are times and places where this service is the most needed of all
the services that can be performed. But the man who never does anything
else, who never thinks or speaks or writes, save of his feats with the muck
rake, speedily becomes, not a help but one of the most potent forces for
evil....
"....There is
nothing more distressing ... than the hard, scoffing spirit which treats the
allegation of dishonesty in a public man as a cause for laughter. Such
laughter is worse than the crackling of thorns under a pot, for it denotes
not merely the vacant mind, but the heart in which high emotions have been
choked before they could grow to fruition."
"The Man With The Muck Rake, " April 15, 1906
Two studies led by a Purdue University researcher revealed that U.S.
presidents who have used image-based words in their speeches have been perceived
favorably in terms of both charisma and greatness.
"Our basic premise is that presidents who use words that evoke pictures,
sounds, smells, tastes and other sensations tap more directly into people's
life experiences than do presidents who use words that appeal solely to
people's intellects," says Cynthia G. Emrich, an assistant professor at the
Krannert School of Management.
One of Emrich's
examples is Theodore Roosevelt's "The Man With The Muckrake," which she
calls his "pivotal" speech. "Historians consider this
speech to have saved the Republican Party, solidified Roosevelt's control
over the Progressive agenda and dealt a serious blow to the "Yellow
Journalism" of irresponsible and sensational personal attacks on politicians
and other prominent individuals."
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QUOTATIONS ABOUT THE LEADERSHIP
STYLE OF THEODORE "TEDDY" ROOSEVELT
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"Iron self-discipline had become a habit with him, and he plotted each
day with the methodism of a Wesleyan minister. The amount of time he
spent at his desk was comparatively small--rarely more than a quarter of
the day--but his concentration was so intense, and his reading so rapid
that he could afford more time off than most"
Edmund Morris on Roosevelt's years at Harvard, (The Rise Of Theodore
Roosevelt, p. 64)
"(Roosevelt's) vitality was indecent, his finances ridiculous, and he
was about as subtle, culturally speaking, as a bull moose; yet there was
no denying his originality, and his extraordinary ability to translate
thought into deed--with such blinding rapidity, sometimes, that the two
seemed to fuse. Roosevelt had 'that singular primitive quality that
belongs to ultimate matter--the quality that medieval theology assigned to
God--and he was pure act.'"
Henry Adams quoted in The Rise Of Theodore Roosevelt, p. 425
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