"A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues."
― Theodore Roosevelt
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Politics
More From Theodore Roosevelt
- "Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind."
- "It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws."
- "A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad."
More In Politics
- "Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others."― Ambrose Bierce
- "To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics."― Vladimir Lenin
- "Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen."― Peggy Noonan