Men Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt

We do not admire a man of timid peace.

— Theodore Roosevelt

I hate a man who skins the land.

— Theodore Roosevelt

No educated man can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.

— Theodore Roosevelt

No man is above the law, and no man is below it.

— Theodore Roosevelt

It is character that counts in a nation as in a man.

— Theodore Roosevelt

The great man is always the man of mighty effort.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Property belongs to man and not man to property.

— Theodore Roosevelt

We want men who will fix their eyes on the stars, but who will not forget that their feet must walk on…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Never, never, you must never either of you remind a man at work on a political job that he may be President.

— Theodore Roosevelt

“Most of the men had simple souls. They could relate facts, but they said very little about what they dimly felt.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Don't hit at all if you can help it; don't hit a man if you can possibly avoid it; but if you…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Show me a man who makes no mistakes, and I will show you a man who doesn't do things.

— Theodore Roosevelt

What such a man needs is not courage but nerve control, cool headedness. This he can get only by practice.

— Theodore Roosevelt

The worst lesson that can be taught to a man is to rely upon others and to whine over his sufferings

— Theodore Roosevelt

I dream of men who take the next step instead of worrying about the next thousand steps.

— Theodore Roosevelt

This country has nothing to fear from the crooked man who fails. We put him in jail. It is the crooked man…

— Theodore Roosevelt

It is necessary for the welfare of the nation that men's lives be based on the principles of the Bible. No man,…

— Theodore Roosevelt

It is of far more important that a man shall play something himself, even if he plays it badly, than that he…

— Theodore Roosevelt

We must remember not to judge any public servant by any one act, and especially should we beware of attacking the men…

— Theodore Roosevelt

To sit home, read one's favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it…

— Theodore Roosevelt

It was a pleasure to deal with a man of high ideals, who scorned everything mean and base, and who possessed those…

— Theodore Roosevelt

All that the law can do is to shape things so that no injustice shall be done by one to the other,…

— Theodore Roosevelt

It is of little use for us to pay lip-loyalty to the mighty men of the past unless we sincerely endeavor to…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Willful sterility is, from the standpoint of the nation, from the standpoint of the human race, the one sin for which the…

— Theodore Roosevelt

There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The weakling and the coward are out of place in a strong and free community. In a republic like ours the governing…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Love of peace is common among weak, short-sighted, timid, and lazy persons; and on the other hand courage is found among many…

— Theodore Roosevelt

A finer body of men has never been gathered by any nation than the men who have done the work of building…

— Theodore Roosevelt

On the whole, we think that the greatest victories are yet to be won, the greatest deeds yet to be done, and…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The men of wealth who today are trying to prevent the regulation and control of their business in the interest of the…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Everything is un-American that tends either to government by a plutocracy or government by a mob. To divide along the lines of…

— Theodore Roosevelt

There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Of one man in especial, beyond anyone else, the citizens of a republic should beware, and that is of the man who…

— Theodore Roosevelt

But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American and nothing but an American. If he tries to…

— Theodore Roosevelt

We of an older generation can get along with what we have, though with growing hardship; but in your full manhood and…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The absence of effective State, and, especially, national, restraint upon unfair money-getting has tended to create a small class of enormously wealthy…

— Theodore Roosevelt

I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life; the life of toil and…

— Theodore Roosevelt

We wish to control big business so as to secure among other things good wages for the wage-workers and reasonable prices for…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The true friend of property, the true conservative, is he who insists that property shall be the servant and not the master…

— Theodore Roosevelt

A just war is in the long run far better for a man's soul than the most prosperous peace

— Theodore Roosevelt