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Theodore Roosevelt, detto Teddy o TR, , è stato un politico statunitense.

È stato il 26º presidente degli Stati Uniti e ha ricevuto il Premio Nobel per la pace. Il suo volto è uno dei quattro scolpiti sul monte Rushmore, assieme a quelli di George Washington, Thomas Jefferson e Abraham Lincoln. Fu eletto presidente all'età di 42 anni ed ancora tutt'oggi è la persona più giovane ad essere stata eletta presidente degli Stati Uniti.

✵ 27. Ottobre 1858 – 6. Gennaio 1919   •   Altri nomi Teddy Rosevelt, Teddy Roosevelt
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“Sono una parte di tutto ciò che ho letto.”

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“Educare una persona nella mente ma non nella morale è educare una minaccia alla società.”

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“Nella mia vita non ho mai invidiato un essere umano che ha condotto una vita facile; ho invidiato moltissime persone che hanno condotto vite difficili e le hanno condotte bene.”

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“Il lupo è un lottatore feroce. Può decimare un branco di segugi attraverso i rapidi morsi delle sue fauci, senza intanto subire ferite. Nemmeno i comuni cani grossi, apparentemente allevati per la lotta, sono in grado di abbatterlo senza addestramento speciale. So di un lupo che ha ucciso con un solo morso un bulldog che l'aveva avventato, e di un altro che, dopo essersi infiltrato nell'orto d'una fattoria in Montana, uccise rapidamente in successione i due grossi mastini che lo attaccarono. L'immensa agilità e ferocia di questa bestia selvaggia, il terribile morso delle sue fauci zannute, e la vita dura che passa, gli sono di grande vantaggio contro i cani, più grassi, dai denti più piccoli, e dalla pelle morbida, sebbene siano nominamente delle razze selezionate per il combattimento. Considerando il modo in cui i tornei del sollevamento dei pesi sono organizzati oggi, questo è solo naturale, siccome non c'è motivo di produrre cani da combattimento degni quando i premi sono distribuiti a base di punti tecnici che sono totalmente non pertinenti all'utilità del cane. Un mastino o un bulldog che ha vinto premi potrebbe essere quasi inutile per gli scopi per cui la sua razza è stata sviluppata. Se ben addestrato o di taglia sufficentemente grossa, un mastino potrebbe avere la meglio contro un lupo del Texas giovane o nano, ma non ho mai visto un cane di questa categoria che giudicherei un degno avversario per uno dei grossi lupi del Montana occidentale. Anche se il cane fosse il più pesante dei due, i suoi denti e artigli sarebbero molto più piccoli, e la sua pelle meno dura.”

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Lupo , Sui cani , Combattimento , Sui giovani

“Fate ciò che potete, con ciò che avete, dove siete.”

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“Faccio pugilato, ma poco, perché sembra piuttosto assurdo per un presidente apparire con un occhio nero e con il naso schiacciato o con le labbra tagliate.”

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Origine: Citato in Marco Pastonesi e Giorgio Terruzzi, Palla lunga e pedalare, Dalai Editore, 1992, p. 83. ISBN 88-8598-826-2

“Il fattore principale nel produrre la Rivoluzione, e più tardi la guerra del 1812, fu l'incapacità della madrepatria a comprendere che gli uomini liberi, i quali avanzavano nella conquista del continente, dovevano essere incoraggiati in quest'opera […]. L'espansione dei duri, avventurosi uomini della frontiera era per gli statisti di Londra causa di ansietà piuttosto che di orgoglio, e il famoso Quebec Act del 1774 fu in parte architettato con lo scopo di mantenere permanentemente ad est degli Allegani le colonie di lingua inglese e conservare la possente e bella vallata dell'Ohio come terreno di caccia per i selvaggi.”

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Origine: 1901, pp. 246-47; citato in Losurdo 2005, p. 299.

Sull'arte , Sull'età , Sulla guerra , Sugli uomini

“Nessun trionfo di pace è più esaltante di un trionfo di guerra.”

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Origine: Citato in Focus, n. 85, p. 180.

Sulla guerra , Sulla pace

“Si possono sopprimere i sentimenti che animano ora una gran parete del nostro popolo, prendendo dieci dei suoi capi, mettendoli […] contro un muro e fucilandoli.”

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parlando di come stroncare scioperi e conflitti sociali: citato in Hofstadter 1960, p. 216; citato in Losurdo 2005, p. 323

“Io non arrivo al punto di pensare che gli unici indiani buoni siano gli indiani morti, ma credo che nove su dieci lo siano, e non dovrei indagare troppo a fondo sul decimo.”

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“Sono creature bizzarre. Normalmente sono spazzini che si nutrono di carogne, sebbene uccidono ogni tanto i muli, i bovini, gli asini, e i giovani rinoceronti. Le loro mandibole sono così potenti, la loro forza così grande, e sono così robuste che solo un numero elevato di cani grossi e feroci possono avere la meglio su di una. Eppure sono molto vigliacche quando vengono cacciate […] Non c'è alcun pericolo al uomo nell'inseguirle. Al massimo, cercheranno di mordere un palo se ferite o messe alle strette. Non dispongono d'un millesimo della furia e forza scatenata del leopardo, eppure sono più propense di quest'ultimo a nutrirsi di esseri umani, persino gli adulti. In certi distretti, dove sono numerose e impavide, è pericoloso per qualsiasi uomo dormire all'aperto […] La iena infatti si tratta du un miscuglio singolare di codardia miserabile e ferocia spaventosa.”

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Sui cani , Sui giovani , Dormire

“Il lupo d'America non è mai stato pericoloso per l'uomo come lo è stato il suo fratello asiatico ed europeo sin dai tempi immemoriali, eppure la differenza potrebbe essere dovuta alla diversità dei loro ambienti. È difficile però dire perché il puma, grande quanto i grossi felini macchiati che si nutre di praticamente le stesse prede, non dovrebbe essere pericoloso per l'uomo quando sono dei lottatori singolarmente formidabili quando messo alle strette. Il puma più grande che uccisi fu lungo due metri e pesante oltre novanta chili. Pochissimi leopardi africani o pantere indiane superebbero queste proporzioni, e questo animale in particolare stava cacciando non solo cervi, ma anche cavalli e bovini, eppure lo uccisi senza alcun pericolo in circostanze in cui uno dei grossi felini macchiati d'africa o asia, o persino un giaguaro sudamericano, mi avrebbero caricato.”

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Lupo , Cavallo , fratelli , Animali
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“Ciò che dovremmo desiderare di scoprire è la qualità individuale del singolo uomo”

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“Dobbiamo esigere il più alto ordine di integrità e competenze nei ai uomini pubblici.”

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Sugli uomini

Theodore Roosevelt: Frasi in inglese

“Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves; and we can shirk neither. We have become a great nation, forced by the fact of its greatness into relations with the other nations of the earth, and we must behave as beseems a people with such responsibilities. Toward all other nations, large and small, our attitude must be one of cordial and sincere friendship. We must show not only in our words, but in our deeds, that we are earnestly desirous of securing their good will by acting toward them in a spirit of just and generous recognition of all their rights. But justice and generosity in a nation, as in an individual, count most when shown not by the weak but by the strong.”

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1900s, Inaugural Address (1905)

“If Congress alters the law and directs me to replace on the coins the sentence in question the direction will be immediately put into effect; but I very earnestly trust that the religious sentiment of the country, the sprit of reverence in this country, will prevent any such action being taken.”

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1900s, "In God we Trust" letter (1907)

“Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one.”

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Letter to Cecil Spring-Rice (12 March 1900)
1900s

“If the American people are not fit for popular government, and if they should of right be the servants and not the masters of those whom they themselves put in office, then Lincoln's work was wasted and the whole system of government upon which this great democratic republic rests is a failure.”

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1910s, California's Policies Proclaimed (Feb. 21, 1911)

“Finally, it would be a masterstroke if those great powers honestly bent on peace would form a League of Peace, not only to keep the peace among themselves, but to prevent, by force if necessary, its being broken by others. The supreme difficulty in connection with developing the peace work of The Hague arises from the lack of any executive power, of any police power to enforce the decrees of the court. In any community of any size the authority of the courts rests upon actual or potential force: on the existence of a police, or on the knowledge that the able-bodied men of the country are both ready and willing to see that the decrees of judicial and legislative bodies are put into effect.”

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1910s, Nobel lecture (1910)

“Friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.”

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1910s, Address at Milwaukee, Wisconsin (1912)

“Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready.”

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Address in San Francisco, California (13 May 1903) http://www.trsite.org/content/pages/speaking-loudly
1900s

“To any nation that stands for human liberties, they have an Ally in the United States.”

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1900s, Address at Providence (1901)

“There are good people who, being discontented with present-day conditions, think that these conditions can be cured by a return to what they call the “principles of the fathers.” […] But to go back to the governmental theories of a hundred years ago would accomplish nothing whatever; for it was under the conditions of unrestricted individualism and freedom from Government interference, countenanced by those theories, that the trusts grew up, and private fortunes, enormous far beyond the deserts of the accumulators were gathered. […] It may be that, in the past development of our country, complete freedom from all restrictions, and the consequent unlimited encouragement and reward given to the most successful industrial leaders, played a part in which the benefits outweighed the disadvantages. But nowadays such is not the case.”

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1910s, The Progressives, Past and Present (1910)

“We know that self-government is difficult. We know that no people needs such high traits of character as that people which seeks to govern its affairs aright through the freely expressed will of the freemen who compose it. But we have faith that we shall not prove false to the memories of the men of the mighty past. They did their work, they left us the splendid heritage we now enjoy. We in our turn have an assured confidence that we shall be able to leave this heritage unwasted and enlarged to our children and our children's children. To do so we must show, not merely in great crises, but in the everyday affairs of life, the qualities of practical intelligence, of courage, of hardihood, and endurance, and above all the power of devotion to a lofty ideal, which made great the men who founded this Republic in the days of Washington, which made great the men who preserved this Republic in the days of Abraham Lincoln.”

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1900s, Inaugural Address (1905)

“What is the lesson to us to-day? Are we to go the way of the older civilizations? The immense increase in the area of civilized activity to-day, so that it is nearly coterminous with the world's surface; the immense increase in the multitudinous variety of its activities; the immense increase in the velocity of the world movement—are all these to mean merely that the crash will be all the more complete and terrible when it comes? We can not be certain that the answer will be in the negative; but of this we can be certain, that we shall not go down in ruin unless we deserve and earn our end. There is no necessity for us to fall; we can hew out our destiny for ourselves, if only we have the wit and the courage and the honesty.”

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1910s, The World Movement (1910)

“A typical vice of American politics — the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues, and the announcement of radical policies with much sound and fury, and at the same time with a cautious accompaniment of weasel phrases each of which sucks the meat out of the preceding statement.”

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"Platform Insincerity" in The Outlook, Vol. 101, No. 13 (27 July 1912), p. 660
1910s

“Moreover, every effort should be made under the law to expedite the proceedings of justice in the case of such an awful crime. But it cannot be necessary in order to accomplish this to deprive any citizen of those fundamental rights to be heard in his own defense which are so dear to us all and which lies at the root of our liberty. It certainly ought to be possible by the proper administration of the laws to secure swift vengeance upon the criminal; and the best and immediate efforts of all legislators, judges and citizens should be addressed to securing such reforms in our legal procedure as to leave no vestige of excuse for those misguided men who undertake to reap vengeance through violent methods.”

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1900s, Letter to Winfield T. Durbin (1903)

“The bosses of the Democratic party and the bosses of the Republican party alike have a closer grip than ever before on the party machines in the States and in the Nation. This crooked control of both the old parties by the beneficiaries of political and business privilege renders it hopeless to expect any far-reaching and fundamental service from either.”

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"Platform Insincerity" in The Outlook, Vol. 101, No. 13 (27 July 1912), p. 660
1910s

“We have a given problem to solve. If we undertake the solution, there is, of course, always danger that we may not solve it aright; but to refuse to undertake the solution simply renders it certain that we cannot possibly solve it aright.”

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Theodore Roosevelt The Strenuous Life

1900s, The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses (1900), The Strenuous Life

“It seems to me that the simple acceptance of this fundamental fact of American life, this acknowledgment that the law of work is the fundamental law of our being, will help us to start aright in facing not a few of the problems that confront us from without and from within. As regards internal affairs, it should teach us the prime need of remembering that, after all has been said and done, the chief factor in any man’s success or failure must be his own character—that is, the sum of his common sense, his courage, his virile energy and capacity. Nothing can take the place of this individual factor.”

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1900s, The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses (1900), National Duties

“The corporate manager who achieves success by honest efficiency in giving the best service to the public should be favored because we all benefit by his efficiency. […] he should be helped by the Government because his success is good for the National welfare. But a man who, grasps and holds business power by breaking the industrial efficiency of others, who wins success by methods which are against‘ the public interest and degrading to the public morals, should not be permitted to ‘ exercise such power. Instead of punishing him by a long and doubtful process of the law after the wrong has been com- mitted, there should be such effective Government regulation as to check the evil tendencies at the moment that they start do develop.”

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1910s, The Progressives, Past and Present (1910)

“The collective power of the State can help; but it is the individual’s own power of self-help which is most important.”

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1910s, The Progressives, Past and Present (1910)

“But we must be ready to face any temporary disaster - whether or not brought on by those who will war against us to the knife — if only through such disaster can we attain our goal.”

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1910s, The Progressives, Past and Present (1910)

“The foreign-born population of this country must be an Americanized population. No other kind can fight the battles of America either in war or peace. It must talk the language of its native-born fellow-citizens; it must possess American citizenship and American ideals. It must stand firm by its oath of allegiance in word and deed and must show that in very fact it has renounced allegiance to every prince, potentate, or foreign government. It must be maintained on an American standard of living so as to prevent labor disturbances in important plants and at critical times. None of these objects can be secured as long as we have immigrant colonies, ghettos, and immigrant sections, and above all they cannot be assured so long as we consider the immigrant only as an industrial asset. The immigrant must not be allowed to drift or to be put at the mercy of the exploiter. Our object is not to imitate one of the older racial types, but to maintain a new American type and then to secure loyalty to this type. We cannot secure such loyalty unless we make this a country where men shall feel that they have justice and also where they shall feel that they are required to perform the duties imposed upon them.”

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1910s, Address to the Knights of Columbus (1915)
Contesto: The foreign-born population of this country must be an Americanized population. No other kind can fight the battles of America either in war or peace. It must talk the language of its native-born fellow-citizens; it must possess American citizenship and American ideals. It must stand firm by its oath of allegiance in word and deed and must show that in very fact it has renounced allegiance to every prince, potentate, or foreign government. It must be maintained on an American standard of living so as to prevent labor disturbances in important plants and at critical times. None of these objects can be secured as long as we have immigrant colonies, ghettos, and immigrant sections, and above all they cannot be assured so long as we consider the immigrant only as an industrial asset. The immigrant must not be allowed to drift or to be put at the mercy of the exploiter. Our object is not to imitate one of the older racial types, but to maintain a new American type and then to secure loyalty to this type. We cannot secure such loyalty unless we make this a country where men shall feel that they have justice and also where they shall feel that they are required to perform the duties imposed upon them. The policy of 'Let alone' which we have hitherto pursued is thoroughly vicious from two standpoints. By this policy we have permitted the immigrants, and too often the native-born laborers as well, to suffer injustice. Moreover, by this policy we have failed to impress upon the immigrant and upon the native-born as well that they are expected to do justice as well as to receive justice, that they are expected to be heartily and actively and single-mindedly loyal to the flag no less than to benefit by living under it.

“Every man among us is more fit to meet the duties and responsibilities of citizenship because of the perils over which, in the past, the nation has triumphed; because of the blood and sweat and tears, the labor and the anguish, through which, in the days that have gone, our forefathers moved on to triumph.”

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Speech before the Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island (June 1897), reported in "Washington’s Forgotten Maxim", American Ideals (1926), vol. 13 of The Works of Theodore Roosevelt, national ed., chapter 12, p. 198
1890s

“If there must be decision by a close majority, then let the people step in and let it be their majority that decides.”

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1910s, California's Policies Proclaimed (Feb. 21, 1911)

“I'm as strong as a bull moose and you can use me to the limit.”

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Letter to Mark Hannah (27 June 1900)
1900s

“Surely, no patriot can fail to see the fearful brutalization and debasement which the indulgence of such a spirit and such practices inevitably portend. Surely, all public men, all writers for the daily press, all clergymen, all teachers, all who in any way have a right to address the public, should, with every energy, unite to denounce such crimes and to support those engaged in putting them down.”

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1900s, Letter to Winfield T. Durbin (1903)

“Finally, this world movement of civilization, this movement which is now felt throbbing in every corner of the globe, should bind the nations of the world together while yet leaving unimpaired that love of country in the individual citizen which in the present stage of the world's progress is essential to the world's well-being.”

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1910s, The World Movement (1910)

“The average American citizen should have presented to him in a simple and easily comprehended form the truth about the business affairs that affect his daily life as consumer, employee, employer, as investor, as voter. […] There are concrete instances of unfair competition that can be reached under the Federal criminal legislation, and they should be attacked and destroyed in the courts. But the laws should be such that normally, and save in extraordinary, circumstances, there should be no need of recourse to the courts. What is needed is administrative supervision and control. This should be so exercised that the highways of commerce and opportunity should be open to all; and not nominally open, but really open, a consistent effort being made to deprive every man of any advantage that is not due to his own superiority and efficiency, controlled by moral purpose. […] Not only as a matter of justice and honesty, but as a matter of prime popular interest, we should see that this control is so exercised as to favor a proper return to the upright business manager and honest investor.”

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1910s, The Progressives, Past and Present (1910)

“It is of little use for us to pay lip-loyalty to the mighty men of the past unless we sincerely endeavor to apply to the problems of the present precisely the qualities which in other crises enabled the men of that day to meet those crises.”

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1910s, The New Nationalism (1910)

“I am in this cause with my whole heart and soul. I believe that the Progressive movement is making life a little easier for all our people; a movement to try to take the burdens off the men and especially the women and children of this country. I am absorbed in the success of that movement.”

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1910s, Address at Milwaukee, Wisconsin (1912)

“You, Knights of Columbus, are particularly fitted to play a great part in the movement for national solidarity, without which there can be no real efficiency in either peace or war. During the last year and a quarter it has been brought home to us in startling fashion that many of the elements of our nation are not yet properly fused. It ought to be a literally appalling fact that members of two of the foreign embassies in this country have been discovered to be implicated in inciting their fellow-countrymen, whether naturalized American citizens or not, to the destruction of property and the crippling of American industries that are operating in accordance with internal law and international agreement. The malign activity of one of these embassies has been brought home directly to the ambassador in such shape that his recall has been forced. The activities of the other have been set forth in detail by the publication in the press of its letters in such fashion as to make it perfectly clear that they were of the same general character. Of course, the two embassies were merely carrying out the instructions of their home governments.”

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1910s, Address to the Knights of Columbus (1915)

“If the courts have the final say-so on all legislative acts, and if no appeal can lie from them to the people, then they are the irresponsible masters of the people. In other words, those who take this position hold that the people have enough intelligence to frame and adopt a constitution but not intelligence to apply and interpret the constitution which they have themselves made.”

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1910s, California's Policies Proclaimed (Feb. 21, 1911)

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