Theodore Roosevelt Quote

Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual; and neither a nation nor an individual can surrender conscience to another's keeping.


Works: Presidential addresses and state papers, Dec. 3, 1901, June 1910, and European addresses. 8 v (ed. 1910)


Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience...

Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience...

Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience...

Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience...