ABOLITIONISTS ADVENTURE
right. (1887.) Mem. Ed. VIII, 118; Nat. Ed. VII, 103.
ABOLITIONISTS. See also SLAVERY.
ACCIDENT INSURANCE. See SOCIAL INSURANCE;
WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION.
ACHIEVEMENT. See REWARDS.
blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and 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 the 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 know neither
victory nor defeat. (At the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23,
1910.) Mem. Ed. XV, 354; Nat. Ed. XIII, 510.
ACTION AND RHETORIC. Rhetoric is a poor
substitute for action, and we have trusted only to
rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must
not merely talk big; we must act big. And our actions
have been very, very small! (Metropolitan, September
1917.) Mem. Ed. XXI, 21; Nat. Ed. XIX, 18.
ACTION. It is true of the Nation, as of the individual,
that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer. Of
course, if the dream is not followed by action, then it is
a bubble; it has merely served to divert the man from
doing something. But great action, action that is really
great, can not take place if the man has it not in his
brain to think great thoughts, to dream great dreams.
(At Clark University, Worcester, Mass., June 21, 1905.)
Presidential Addresses and State Papers IV, 392.
____________. I hate a man who never does anything.
Why, I'd rather do something and get it wrong, and then
apologize, than to do nothing. (In conversation with
Joseph De Camp, autumn 1908.) Bradley Gilman,
Roosevelt: the Happy Warrior. (Little, Brown, & Co.,
Boston, 1921), p. 265.
ACTION AND CRITICISM. The man who really
counts in the world is the doer, not the mere critic—the
man who actually does the work, even if roughly and
imperfectly, not the man who only talks or writes about
how it ought to be done. (1891.) Mem. Ed. IX, 420;
Nat. Ed. X, 534.
____________. [A man] can accomplish a certain
amount by criticism if his criticism is intelligent and
honest, but he can of course accomplish infinitely more
by action. Harvard Graduates' Magazine, October
1892, p. 4.
____________. Criticism is necessary and useful; it is
often indispensable; but it can never take the place of
action, or be even a poor substitute for it. . . . It is the
doer of deeds who actually counts in the battle for life,
and not the man who looks on and says how the fight
ought to be fought, without himself sharing the stress
and the danger. (Atlantic Monthly, August 1894.) Mem.
Ed. XV, 53; Nat. Ed. XIII, 39.
____________. 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
ACTION. See also BOASTING; CRITICISM; DEEDS;
ORATORY; PRACTICALITY.
ADDAMS, JANE. See MARRIAGE.
ADMINISTRATION. Good legislation does not
secure good government, which can come only through
a good administration. (At Merchants' Association
Dinner, New York City, May 25, 1900.) Mem. Ed. XVI,
506.
____________. Wise legislation is vitally important,
but honest administration is even more important.
(Before Republican National Convention, Phila., June
21, 1900.) Mem. Ed. XVI, 527; Nat. Ed. XIV, 344.
ADMINISTRATION. See also GOVERNMENT; LAWS;
LEGISLATION.
ADULTERATION OF FOODS. See PURE FOOD
LAW.
ADVENTURE—QUALIFICATIONS FOR. The
man should have youth and strength who seeks
adventure, in the wide, waste spaces of the earth, in the
marshes, and among the vast mountain masses, in the
northern forests, amid the steaming jungles of the
tropics, or on the deserts of sand or of snow. He must
long greatly for the lonely winds that blow across the
wilderness, and for sunrise and sunset over the rim of
the empty world. His heart must thrill for the saddle and
not for the hearth-
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