All privileges based on wealth, and all emnity to honest men merely because they are wealthy, are un-American. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena... — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Unless the man is master of his soul all other kinds of mastery amount to little. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community. — 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
What a man does for himself, dies with him. What a man does for his community lives long after he's gone. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We can no more and no less afford to condone evil in the man of capital than evil in the man of… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is of far more important that a man shall play something himself, even if he plays it badly, than that he… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We must remember not to judge any public servant by any one act, and especially should we beware of attacking the men… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It was a pleasure to deal with a man of high ideals, who scorned everything mean and base, and who possessed those… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
All that the law can do is to shape things so that no injustice shall be done by one to the other,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The man who does not think it was America's duty to fight for her own sake in view of the infamous conduct… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A small politician, of low capacity and mean surroundings, proud to act as the servile tool of men worse than himself but… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We must diligently strive to make our young men decent, God-fearing, law-abiding, honor-loving, justice-doing and also fearless and strong. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Every man among us is more fit to meet the duties and responsibilities of citizenship because of the perils over which, in… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Compromise" is so often used in a bad sense that it is difficult to remember that properly it merely describes the process… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Lincoln-sad, patient, kindly Lincoln, who after bearing upon his weary shoulders for four years a greater burden than that borne by any… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The Americans of other blood must remember that the man who in good faith and without reservations gives up another country for… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There is no patent recipe for getting good citizenship. You get it by applying the old, old rules of decent conduct, the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Every man, who parrots the cry of ‘stand by the President’ without adding the proviso ‘so far as he serves the Republic’… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Willful sterility is, from the standpoint of the nation, from the standpoint of the human race, the one sin for which the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The weakling and the coward are out of place in a strong and free community. In a republic like ours the governing… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Avoid the base hypocrisy of condemning in one man what you pass over in silence when committed by another. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To every man who faces life with real desire to do his part in everything, I appeal for a study of the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
From its origin to the present hour, in all its vicissitudes, Masonry has been the steady unwearing friend of man. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If elected, I shall see to it that every man has a square deal, no less and no more. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I have already lived and enjoyed as much life as any nine other men I have known. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The truth is that any good modern rifle is good enough. The determining factor is the man behind the gun. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Nowhere, not at sea, does a man feel more lonely than when riding over the far-reaching, seemingly never-ending plains... — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If we put corrupt men in public office and sneeringly acquiesce in their corruptions, then we are wrong ourselves. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Such an experiment without actual conditions of war to support it is a foolish waste of time. . . . I once… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We want the active and zealous help of every man far-sighted enough to realize the importance from the standpoint of the nation's… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I must be wanting to be President. Every young man does. But I won't let myself think of it; I must not,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Weasel words from mollycoddles will never do when the day demands prophetic clarity from greathearts. Manly men must emerge for this hour… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Now and then we hear the wilder voices of the wilderness, from animals that in the hours of darkness do not fear… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The men and women who have the right ideals . . . are those who have the courage to strive for the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
From time to time, little men will find fault with what you have done...but they will go down the stream like bubbles,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The woman has the right to be emancipated from the position of a drudge or a toy. She is entitled to a… — 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
