Col. Theodore Roosevelt

26th President of the United States of America. Author of 45 books. Only tweeting that which in life I have spoken or written.

[Col. Theodore Roosevelt @ColTedRoosevelt]

All who under fire join in the exhausting and perilous labor which brings victory. These are the real heroes. These are the men who do the one great and indispensable task which entitles them forever to be honored by all true Americans.

[Washington National Cathedral @WNCathedral]

We're pretty sure that's what they mean by Bully Pulpit.

Go @Nationals!

#FINISHTHEFIGHT #Natitude #Teddy

[Col. Theodore Roosevelt @ColTedRoosevelt]

When I was ten years old I made my first journey to Europe. My birthday was spent in Cologne, and in order to give me a thoroughly “party” feeling I remember that my mother out in full dress for my birthday dinner.

[Theodore Roosevelt Center @TR_Center]

Theodore Roosevelt was born on this day in 1858. His steadfast values, foresight and wisdom, and commitment to a strenuous and honest life is still inspiring people to this day. Happy Birthday Mr. President!

[Col. Theodore Roosevelt @ColTedRoosevelt]

I shall have him to dine as often as I please!

[Theodore Roosevelt Center @TR_Center]

#OTD in 1901, noted African American educator Booker T. Washington dined at the White House, garnering both support and backlash for Roosevelt. Many assume the invitation was made after Roosevelt took office, but a telegram in our collection shows it was scheduled months before.

[Col. Theodore Roosevelt @ColTedRoosevelt]

Every leader of a great reform has to contend, on the one hand, with the open, avowed enemies of the reform, and on the other hand, with its extreme advocates, who wish the impossible, and who join hands with their extreme opponents to defeat the rational friends of the reform.

[Col. Theodore Roosevelt @ColTedRoosevelt]

Men often forget that constructive change offers the best method of avoiding destructive change; that reform is the antidote to revolution.

[Col. Theodore Roosevelt @ColTedRoosevelt]

I will take the oath. And in this hour of deep and terrible national bereavement, I wish to state that it shall be my aim to continue, absolutely without variance, the policy of President McKinley, for the peace and honor of our beloved country.

[Col. Theodore Roosevelt @ColTedRoosevelt]

Our relations with the other powers of the world are important; but still more important are our relations among ourselves.

[Col. Theodore Roosevelt @ColTedRoosevelt]

There is no use in trying to rally around the past … If the Republican Party takes the ground that the world must be the same old world, the Republican Party is lost...[1918]

[Chad Mayes @ChadMayes]

What does “Republican” mean to you? A sincere question.

[Col. Theodore Roosevelt @ColTedRoosevelt]

The republic cannot stand if honesty and decency do not prevail alike in public and private life.

[Col. Theodore Roosevelt @ColTedRoosevelt]

I do not think partisanship should ever obscure the truth.

[Col. Theodore Roosevelt @ColTedRoosevelt]

The first duty of the government is relentlessly to put a stop to the violence and then to deal firmly and wisely with all the conditions that led up to the violence.

[Col. Theodore Roosevelt @ColTedRoosevelt]

...though they do not often read the books, but rock gently to and fro, gazing sleepily out at the weird-looking buttes opposite, until their sharp outlines grow indistinct and purple in the after-glow of the sunset.

[Col. Theodore Roosevelt @ColTedRoosevelt]

This veranda is a pleasant place in the summer evenings when a cool breeze stirs along the river and blows in the faces of the tired men, who loll back in their rocking-chairs (what true American does not enjoy a rocking-chair?) book in hand...

[John Lee @thudhead]

@ColTedRoosevelt, visited your 'home ranch' at Elkhorn, North Dakota this morning. Thank you for the great job you did protecting our public lands.

[Col. Theodore Roosevelt @ColTedRoosevelt]

@RogerPielkeJr It is a bad thing to permit sensationalism and hysteria to shape the development of our sports.

[Col. Theodore Roosevelt @ColTedRoosevelt]

The best scheme of government can do little more than provide against injustice, and then let the individual rise or fall on his own merits.

[Col. Theodore Roosevelt @ColTedRoosevelt]

When there is a great unrest, partly reasoning and partly utterly unreasoning and unreasonable, it becomes extremely difficult to beat a loud-mouthed demagogue, especially if he is a demagogue of great wealth.

[Col. Theodore Roosevelt @ColTedRoosevelt]

If a public man tries to get your vote by saying that he will do something wrong in your interest, you can be absolutely certain that if ever it becomes worth his while he will do something wrong against your interest.

[Col. Theodore Roosevelt @ColTedRoosevelt]

I wonder whether there ever can come in life a thrill of greater exaltation & rapture than that which comes to one between the ages of say 6-14 when the library door is thrown open and you walk in to see all the gifts, like a materialized fairy land, arrayed on your special table

[Col. Theodore Roosevelt @ColTedRoosevelt]

The only safe and honorable rule of foreign policy for the United States is to show itself courteous toward other nations, scrupulous not to infringe upon their rights, and yet able and ready to defend its own.

[Col. Theodore Roosevelt @ColTedRoosevelt]

It is entirely inexcusable to try to combine the unready hand with the unbridled tongue.