“Teddy Tweets”

Theodore Roosevelt’s Weekly Wisdom

Presented by The Ripon Society

“I feel an impatient contempt for the man of words if he is merely a man of words. The great speech must always be the speech of a man with a great soul who has a thought worth putting behind words, and whose acts bear out the words he utters.”


Theodore Roosevelt

Letter to H.C. Lodge

July 19, 1908

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