Theodore Roosevelt: I shall treat every man on his merits as a man. The doors to the White House will swing open just as easily for the poor as for the rich. The labor unions and the corporations will have a Square Deal, but, most important, the private citizen will have a Square Deal!


--Sidney Blackmer (as ) in Teddy, the Rough Rider

Theodore Roosevelt: I would rather have this administration fail because it enforced the laws than succeed by violating them.


--Sidney Blackmer (as ) in Teddy, the Rough Rider

Theodore Roosevelt: Speak softly but carry a big stick!


--Sidney Blackmer (as ) in The Monroe Doctrine

Sir Bertram Evans - Home Secretary: I think, sir, you have said entirely too much.
Tom Starr: You're right. From now on I intend doing something.


--Sidney Blackmer (as ) in House of Secrets

Stanley Ford: Good evening, Judge Blackstone. I'm afraid this is a mournful occasion.
Judge Blackstone: Not at all, my boy, not at all. Been married 38 years myself. And I don't regret one day of it. The one day I don't regret was... August 2, 1936. She was off visiting her ailing mother at the time.


--Sidney Blackmer (as Judge Blackstone) in How to Murder Your Wife

Mary Beekman: I knew when I met you tonight that you'd come in handy.
Kenneth Alden: Well that's very kind of you.
Mary Beekman: But I couldn't figure out how until a minute ago. I suppose you know everyone in the social register don't you?
Kenneth Alden: Well everyone worth knowing. Of course that eliminates most of them.


--Sidney Blackmer (as ) in False Pretenses

Tracy: Help me off the pedestal.
Seth Lord: Watch out for that first step, it's quite a tumble.


--Sidney Blackmer (as Seth Lord) in High Society

Tracy: I'm truly sorry to have been a disappointment to you.
Seth Lord: I've never said that and I never will.


--Sidney Blackmer (as Seth Lord) in High Society

Rosemary Woodhouse: Oh, God!
Roman Castevet: God is dead! Satan lives!


--Sidney Blackmer (as Roman Castevet) in Rosemary's Baby

[last lines]
Theodore Roosevelt: [dictates speech to his secretary] There can be no compromise in the fight for Americanism. I am confident that our people will work hand-in-hand with any public man who, in good faith, does all that is possible to see that the United States so conducts herself as a nation as to conserve the honor, the institutions, and the peaceful welfare of her own citizens. Our next business will be to help guarantee the peace of justice for the world at large. There cannot be, there must no be, a repetition of the crime against Belgium. I am antibrutality. I should protest this strongly against wrongdoing by any foreign power. The little nations of the earth have a right to live, and if civilization is to endure, the great nations must respect that right. Let us unite in the one great endeavor of achieving an enduring peace with all the world. But let us not forget that the surest promise of that peace lies in our constant preparedness to meet all eventualities from without, and to combat and destroy all subversive elements working from within. There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says that he is an American and seeks to promote foreign isms within our borders is not a true American. We have room for but one flag, the American flag. We have room for but one language, the language of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. And we have room for but one loyalty, and that is loyalty to the American people.


--Sidney Blackmer (as ) in Teddy, the Rough Rider