Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

The lives of truest heroism are those in which there are no great deeds to look back upon. It is the little things well done that go to make up a truly successful and good life.

I feel as fit as a bull moose.

The poorest way to face life is to face it with a sneer.

The extermination of the buffalo has been a veritable tragedy of the animal world.

In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.

I would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I have acted as I ought not to.

The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.

Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work is as valuable as that of a man it should be paid as highly.

The joy of living is his who has the heart to demand it. Life is a great adventure, and I want to say to you, accept it in such a spirit.

I don't go so far as to think that the only good Indians are dead Indians, but I believe nine out of ten are, and I shouldn't like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth.

Gradually the true Mason gains experience in using these working tools and can observe subtler and subtler indications of personal flaws.

Burning fossil fuels is like breaking up the furniture to feed the fireplace because it's easier than going out to the woodpile.

Where a trust becomes a monopoly the state has an immediate right to interfere.

The wolf is the arch type of ravin, the beast of waste and desolation.

In a crisis, the man worth his salt is the man who meets the needs of the situation in whatever way is necessary.

I have no business to feel downcast or querulous merely because when so much as been given me I have not had even more.

I do not care a rap as to who gets credit for the work, provided the work is done.

We cannot do great deeds unless we're willing to do the small things that make up the sum of greatness.

Ours is a government of liberty by, through, and under the law. A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.

There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a Democrat like myself must admit this.

To hell with the Constitution when people want coal!

The world wants the kind of men who do not shrink from temporary defeats in life; but come again and wrestle triumph from defeat.

A churchless community, a community where men have abandoned and scoffed at or ignored their religious needs, is a community on the rapid downgrade.

We are the heirs of the ages

It is a wicked thing to be neutral between right and wrong.

The name Roosevelt has this legendary force in our country at this time.

Constructive change offers the best method for avoiding destructive change.

Nothing is gained by debate on non-debatable subjects.

It is by no means necessary that a great nation should always stand at the heroic level. But no nation has the root of greatness in it unless in time of need it can rise to the heroic mood.

To have acted otherwise ... would have been the betrayal of the interests of the United States.

I am rather more apt to read old books than new ones.

Do nothing to mar its grandeur ... keep it for your children, your children's children, and all who come after you, as the one great sight which every American should see.

No triumph of peace is quite so great as the supreme triumphs of war.

The worst of all fears is the fear of living

What I have advocated is not wild radicalism. It is the highest and wisest kind of conservatism.

I have often been afraid, but I would not give in to it. I made myself act as though I was not afraid and gradually my fear disappeared.

The first duty of an American citizen, then, is that he shall work in politics.

Ruin looks us in the face if we judge a man by his position instead of judging him by his conduct in that position.

In this world the one thing supremely worth having is the opportunity to do well and worthily a piece of work of vital consequence to the welfare of mankind.

Not trying is the surest way of achieving nothing at all.

Just as you believe you may have already halfway there

What I am to be, I am becoming.

It is only the warlike power of a civilized people that can give peace to the world.

The foes from whom we pray to be delivered are our own passions, appetites, and follies; and against these there is always need that we should war.

There are dreadful moments when death comes very near those we love, even if for the time being it passes by. But life is a great adventure, and the worst of all fears is the fear of living.

I entirely appreciate loyalty to one"s friends, but loyalty to the cause of justice and honor stands above it.

From time to time, little men will find fault with what you have done...but they will go down the stream like bubbles, they will vanish. But the work you have done will remain for the ages.

No people ever yet benefited by riches if their prosperity corrupted their virtue.

Argument weak; speak loudly!

Alike for the nation and the individual, the one indispensable requisite is character.