And he brought his fondness for “Big Stick Diplomacy” with him. The phrase became so strongly associated with Roosevelt during his presidency that he was often depicted in political cartoons ...

The speech that Roosevelt gave in September 1901 wasn’t as famous as “The Man in the Arena,” but it did launch one of his most famous sayings.

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Conflicting monetary goals and budget constraints will undermine the administration's ability to exert influence from a ...

Trump’s approach mirrors President Theodore Roosevelt’s famous dictum: “Speak softly and carry a big stick.” His diplomacy is pragmatic and guided by hard realities — qualities that the ...

President Trump may not “speak softly,” but he does “carry a big stick.” Telling Hamas that if all hostages are not released by the time he’s sworn in, there will be “hell to pay,” he’s invoking ...

Political opponents branded Roosevelt's big-stick Caribbean manoeuvring illegitimate, but it proved popular with voters. In November, he defeated Alton Parker of the Democrats by 7.6 million to ...

SOMERSET - The Meadows Foundation presents Theodore Roosevelt: His Life and Times as Seen Through Political Cartoons, Postcards and Pictures of the Period at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 22 at ...

Actually, Roosevelt was trying to say that soft-spoken (even secret) diplomacy should be the priority of a civilization, as long as hardness -- of moral resolve, of military might -- lay back of it.