The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the state because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I violate no secret when I say that one of the greatest values in Masonry is that it affords an opportunity for… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We cannot afford merely to sit down and deplore the evils of city life as inevitable, when cities are constantly growing, both… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort; the man who never wrongs… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficultyI have never in my life envied… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Those who oppose all reform will do well to remember that ruin in its worst form is inevitable if our national life… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In the great battle of life, no brilliancy of intellect, no perfection of bodily development, will count when weighed in the balance… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
While my interest in natural history has added very little to my sum of achievement, it has added immeasurably to my sum… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In speaking to you men of the greatest city of the West, men of the state which gave to the country Lincoln… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A soft, easy life is not worth living, if it impairs the fibre of brain and heart and muscle. We must dare… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We stand for a living wage. Wages are subnormal if they fail to provide a living for those who devote their time… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The function of our Government is to insure to all its citizens, now and hereafter, their rights to life, liberty, and the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In a civilized and cultivated country wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen. the excellent people who… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If we lose the virile, manly qualities, and sink into a nation of mere hucksters, putting gain over national honor, and subordinating… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To discriminate against a thoroughly upright citizen because he belongs to some particular church, or because, like Abraham Lincoln, he has not… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If there ever was a pursuit which stultified itself by its very conditions, it is the pursuit of pleasure as the all-sufficing… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No man can do both effective and decent work in public life unless he is a practical politician on the one hand,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No man can be a good citizen unless he has a wage more than sufficient to cover the bare cost of living,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I regard the Masonic institution as one of the means ordained by the Supreme Architect to enable mankind to work out the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I enter a most earnest plea that in our hurried and rather bustling life of today we do not lose the hold… — 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
