"To have acted otherwise ... would have..." - Quote by Theodore Roosevelt

“I am far from underestimating the importance of dividends, but I rank dividends below human character.”

“A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless.”

“Most of us tiptoe through life in order to make it safely to death.”

“If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.”

“Still, it is the primary right of men to die and kill for the land they live in, and to punish with exceptional severity all members of their own race who have warmed their hands at the invaders' hearth.”

“Our first duty, to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.”

“A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and the truth in front of patriotic passion.”

“Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tiedoes not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where we will.”

“Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views, and boldest action to bring it speedy relief. Once relieved, its form of government is saved to the world; its beloved history, and cherished memories, are vindicated; and its happy future fully assured, and rendered inconceivably grand.”