"If you've got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow." - Theodore Roosevelt

[DebJ]

Wish the Dems could do that in 2016.

Man old Teddy has some great quotes. Some outrageously wrong ones, too, but mostly, outstanding!

[msongs]

1. Iowa's crazy woman with a gun has beat the dems to it already nt

[DebJ]

4. Well then, we need to snatch her first! n/t

[DebJ]

2. Is Elizabeth Warren related to TR?

“The absence of effective State, and, especially, national, restraint upon unfair money-getting has tended to create a small class of enormously wealthy and economically powerful men, whose chief object is to hold and increase their power. The prime need to is to change the conditions which enable these men to accumulate power which it is not for the general welfare that they should hold or exercise. We grudge no man a fortune which represents his own power and sagacity, when exercised with entire regard to the welfare of his fellows. Again, comrades over there, take the lesson from your own experience. Not only did you not grudge, but you gloried in the promotion of the great generals who gained their promotion by leading their army to victory. So it is with us. We grudge no man a fortune in civil life if it is honorably obtained and well used. It is not even enough that it should have been gained without doing damage to the community. We should permit it to be gained only so long as the gaining represents benefit to the community.”

[Proud Public Servant]

3. Way too crude for TR

No matter what the internet says. John Wayne is the likelier source.

[DebJ]

6. Thanks. Yep the internets can't seem to decide who actually said that first.

[choie]

7. I thought it was Charles Colson of Watergate fame who said it...

at least that's what was claimed in the movie All the President's Men or maybe he had a sign in his office that said it..

[Retrograde]

12. Yes, TR seems to have been a bit of a prude (n/t)1

[NYC Liberal]

5. Sounds like Bush's strategy going into Iraq.

[Throd]

8. "Most internet quotes are not true" Generalissimo Francisco Franco, 1967

[DebJ]

13. LOL

[dflprincess]

9. I thought that was a Lyndon Johnson quote

sounds like him.

[badtoworse]

10. That is my recollection also.

[roamer65]

11. Very true, sounds like ol' lying Lyndon.