"SPEAK SOFTLY & CARRY A BIG STICK" - Teddy Roosevelt Tribute T-Shirts

Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt, 26th President of The United States; We bring you a tribute shirt with two great T.R. Quotations. He has plenty more; a short history below; look him up sometime, you will be ENTERTAINED!

He liked to quote a favorite,

“Speak softly and carry a big stick. . . . ”  You will go far" - from African Proverb.

BIG STICK IDEOLOGY

Roosevelt described his style of foreign policy as "the exercise of intelligent forethought and of decisive action sufficiently far in advance of any likely crisis".

ON VOTING

"A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user."

ROOSEVELT is in the MOUNT RUSHMORE of US Presidents!!!

YOUNGEST PRESIDENT

With the assassination of President McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, not quite 43, became the youngest President in the Nation’s history.

ROUGH RIDER

During the Spanish-American War, Roosevelt was lieutenant colonel of the Rough Rider Regiment, which he led on a charge at the battle of San Juan. He was one of the most conspicuous heroes of the war.

PEACE PRIZE

He won the Nobel Peace Prize for mediating the Russo-Japanese War, reached a Gentleman’s Agreement on immigration with Japan, and sent the Great White Fleet on a goodwill tour of the world.

CONSERVATION

Some of Theodore Roosevelt’s most effective achievements were in conservation. He added enormously to the national forests in the West, reserved lands for public use, and fostered great irrigation projects.

HARD WORK

He crusaded endlessly on matters big and small, exciting audiences with his high-pitched voice, jutting jaw, and pounding fist. “The life of strenuous endeavor” was a must for those around him, as he romped with his five younger children and led ambassadors on hikes through Rock Creek Park in Washington, D.C.

FAMOUS SPEECHES

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

― Theodore Roosevelt

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