Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books
It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.
Never trust a man who says he is only a little crooked, and that the crookedness is exercised in your interest.
If we put corrupt men in public office and sneeringly acquiesce in their corruptions, then we are wrong ourselves.
What such a man needs is not courage but nerve control, cool headedness. This he can get only by practice.
If a strong man has not in him the lift toward lofty things, his strength makes him only a curse to himself and his neighbor.
We wish peace, but we wish the peace of justice, the peace of righteousness. We wish it because we think it is right and not because we are afraid.
No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us.
The longer I live the more I think of the quality of fortitude... men who fall, pick themselves up and stumble on, fall again, and are trying to get back up when they die.
Avoid the base hypocrisy of condemning in one man what you pass over in silence when committed by another.
What a man does for himself, dies with him. What a man does for his community lives long after he's gone.
In doing your work in the great world, it is a safe plan to follow a rule I once heard on the football field: Don't flinch, don't fall; hit the line hard.
If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.
The forces that tend for evil are great and terrible, but the forces of truth and love and courage and honesty and generosity and sympathy are also stronger than ever before.
The Constitution was made for the people and not the people for the Constitution.
If a man has a very decided character, has a strongly accentuated career, it is normally the case of course that he makes ardent friends and bitter enemies.
A really great people, proud and high spirited, would face all the disasters of war rather than purchase that base prosperity which is bought at the price of national honor.
It is not what we have that will make us a great nation; it is the way in which we use it.
It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home.
I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.
Each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune.
The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side.
The mass of the American people are most emphatically not in the deplorable condition of which you speak.
Death is always, under all circumstances, a tragedy, for if it is not then it means that life has become one.
Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.
We must remember not to judge any public servant by any one act, and especially should we beware of attacking the men who are merely the occasions and not the cause of disaster.
Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck.
The ordinary air fighter is an extraordinary man and the extraordinary air fighter stands as one in a million among his fellows.
The six great gifts of an Irish girl are beauty, soft voice, sweet speech, wisdom, needlework, and chastity.
My experience...convinced me that tea was better than brandy, and during the last six months in Afica I took no brandy, even when sick taking tea instead.
It pays no matter what comes after it, to try and do things, to accomplish things in this life and not merely to have a soft and pleasant time.
It is well indeed for out land that we of this generation have learned to think nationally.
...to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.
The performance of duty, and not an indulgence in vapid ease and vapid pleasure, is all that makes life worth while.