The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly. – Theodore Roosevelt
Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided but they are far better than certain kinds of peace. – Theodore Roosevelt
If there is not the war, you dont get the great general if there is not a great occasion, you dont get a great statesman if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name. – Theodore Roosevelt
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. – Theodore Roosevelt