Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
In popular government results worth while can only be achieved by men who combine worthy ideals with practical good sense.
Don't limit your challenges - challenge your limits. Don't spread patriotism too thin.
The decisions of the courts on economic and social questions depend on their economic and social philosophy.
If we would have our citizens contented and law-abiding, we must not sow the seeds of discontent in childhood by denying children their birthright of play.
It is, of course, the merest truism to say a party is of use only so far as it serves the nation.
More and more, as it becomes necessary to preserve the game, let us hope that the camera will largely supplant the rifle.
All privileges based on wealth, and all emnity to honest men merely because they are wealthy, are un-American.
The settler and pioneer have at bottom had justice on their side; this great continent could not have been kept as nothing but a game preserve for squalid savages.
I am far from underestimating the importance of dividends, but I rank dividends below human character.
The greatest privilege and greatest duty for any man is to be happily married, and no other form of success or service, for either man or woman, can be wisely accepted as a substitute or alternative
After the war, and until the day of his death, his position on almost every public question was either mischievous or ridiculous, and usually both.
Don't hit at all if you can help it; don't hit a man if you can possibly avoid it; but if you do hit him, put him to sleep.
There is nothing more practical than the preservation of beauty, than the preservation of anything that appeals to the higher emotions of mankind
Each man must work for himself, and unless he so works, no outside help can avail him.
Nowhere, not at sea, does a man feel more lonely than when riding over the far-reaching, seemingly never-ending plains.
It's not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of the deeds could have done better.
A President has a great chance; his position is almost that of a king and a prime minister rolled into one.
Hardness of heart is a dreadful quality, but it is doubtful whether in the long run it works more damage than softness of head.
We must treat each man on his worth and merits as a man. We must see that each is given a square deal, because he is entitled to no more and should receive no less.
There is no moral difference between gambling at cards or in lotteries or on the race track and gambling in the stock market. One method is just pernicious to the body politic as the other kind.
Never, never, you must never either of you remind a man at work on a political job that he may be President.
Our flag is a proud flag, and it stands for liberty and civilization. Where it has once floated, there must be no return to tyranny.
The corporation that shrinks from the light" would have anything to fear from government. About the welfare of such corporations we need not be oversensitive.
War with evil; but show no spirit of malignity toward the man who may be responsible for the evil. Put it out of his power to do wrong.
A true forest is not merely a storehouse full of wood, but, as it were, a factory of wood.
Under government ownership corruption can flourish just as rankly as under private ownership.
I want to see you game, boys, I want to see you brave and manly, and I also want to see you gentle and tender.
Every Man owes some of his time to the upbuilding of the profession to which he belongs.
Materially we must strive to secure a broader economic opportunity for all men, so that each shall have a better chance to show the stuff of which he is made.
