"Oh, if only I could be President..." - Quote by Theodore Roosevelt
Oh, if only I could be President and Congress, too, just for ten minutes.
More by Theodore Roosevelt
“The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages.”
“We cannot do great deeds unless we're willing to do the small things that make up the sum of greatness.”
“Just as Lincoln got contradictory advice from the extremists of both sides . . . so now I have to guard myself against the extremists of both sides.”
More on Politics
“The object of Parliament is to substitute argument for fisticuffs.”
“So is the English Parliament provincial. Mere country bumpkins, they betray themselves, when any more important question arises for them to settle, the Irish question, for instance,--the English question why did I not say? Their natures are subdued to what they work in. Their "good breeding" respects only secondary objects.”
“Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.”
More on Power
“Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.”
“Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage.”
“Taxes are the source of life for the bureaucracy, the army and the court, in short, for the whole apparatus of the executive power. Strong government and heavy taxes are identical.”