I am simply unable to understand the value placed by so many people upon great wealth. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
With self-discipline most anything is possible. --Theodore Roosevelt — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Yes, my friend, and if you will steal for me then you will steal from me. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Honesty first; then courage; then brains - and all are indispensable. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is not what we have that will make us a great nation; it is the way in which we use it. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Men can never escape being governed. Either they must govern themselves or they must submit to being governed by others. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I have always said I would not have been President had it not been for my experience in North Dakota. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
An Airedale can do anything any other dog can do and then whip the other dog if he has to. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The one being abhorrent to the powers above the earth and under them is the hyphenated American — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“I f he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Most of us tiptoe through life in order to make it safely to death. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The Constitution was made for the people and not the people for the Constitution. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
You can't choose your potential, but you can choose to fulfill it. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“I have only a second rate brain, but I think I have a capacity for action.” — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There can be no greater issue than that of conservation in this country. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I never won anything without hard labor and the exercise of my best judgment. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Do Something Now. If not you, who? If not here, where? If not now, when? — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share
There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share
Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share
Let the watchwords of all our people be the old familiar watchwords of honesty, decency, fair-dealing, and commonsense."... "We must treat each man on… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share
The forces that tend for evil are great and terrible, but the forces of truth and love and courage and honesty and generosity and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share
Conservation and rural-life policies are really two sides of the same policy; and down at the bottom this policy rests upon the fundamental law… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share
It is a great mistake to think that the extremist is a better man than the moderate. Usually the difference is not that he… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share
I am a strong individualist by personal habit, inheritance, and conviction; but it is a mere matter of common sense to recognize that the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share
Alone of human beings the good and wise mother stands on a plane of equal honor with the bravest soldier; for she has gladly… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share
The greatest privilege and greatest duty for any man is to be happily married, and no other form of success or service, for either… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share
For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share
There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. To put an end to it will be neither a short… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share
If elected, I shall see to it that every man has a square deal, no less and no more. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share