No man can lead a public career really worth leading, no man can act with rugged independence in serious crises, nor strike at great abuses, nor afford to make powerful and unscrupulous foes, if he is himself vulnerable in his private character.


The Rough Riders: An Autobiography (ed. Library of America, 1899) - ISBN: 9781931082655

Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

No man can lead a public career really worth leading, no man can act with rugged independence in serious crises, nor strike at great abuses, nor...

No man can lead a public career really worth leading, no man can act with rugged independence in serious crises, nor strike at great abuses, nor...

No man can lead a public career really worth leading, no man can act with rugged independence in serious crises, nor strike at great abuses, nor...

No man can lead a public career really worth leading, no man can act with rugged independence in serious crises, nor strike at great abuses, nor...