Abraham Lincoln - the spirit incarnate of those who won victory in the Civil War - was the true representative of this… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most incapable Executive that ever filled the presidential chair...it would be difficult to imagine a man less fit to guide… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If a man continually blusters, if he lacks civility, a big stick will not save him from trouble, and neither will speaking… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred with dust and sweat; who strives… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work is as valuable… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I do not believe that any man can adequately appreciate the world of to-day unless he has some knowledge of -- a… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The vice of envy is not only a dangerous, but a mean vice; for it is always a confession of inferiority. It… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A finer body of men has never been gathered by any nation than the men who have done the work of building… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The men of wealth who today are trying to prevent the regulation and control of their business in the interest of the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
On the whole, we think that the greatest victories are yet to be won, the greatest deeds yet to be done, and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Now, it is very necessary that we should not flinch from seeing what is vile and debasing. There is filth on the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The one quality which sets one man apart from another- the key which lifts one to every aspiration while others are caught… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The ordinary air fighter is an extraordinary man and the extraordinary air fighter stands as one in a million among his fellows. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I do not dislike but I certainly have no especial respect or admiration for and no trust in, the typical big moneyed… — 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
...short-sighted men who in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Every man owes a part of his time and money to the business or industry in which he is engaged. No man… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There is need of a sound body, and even more need of a sound mind. But above mind and above body stands… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena..who errs, who comes short again and again; but who does… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The greatest privilege and greatest duty for any man is to be happily married, and no other form of success or service,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The highest form of success comes to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship or from bitter toil, and… — 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
No man who is not willing to bear arms and to fight for his rights can give a good reason why he… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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
The man who really counts in the world is the doer, not the mere critic -- the man who actually does the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No ordinary work done by a man is either as hard or as responsible as the work of a woman who is… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Leave it as it is. You can not improve on it. You can only mar it. The ages have been at work… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No man can lead a public career really worth leading, no man can act with rugged independence in serious crises, nor strike… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Almost every man who has by his life-work added to the sum of human achievement of which the race is proud, of… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Although not a very old man, I have yet lived a great deal in my life, and I have known sorrow too… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Certain rich men, whose lives are evil and corrupt, are the representatives of predatory wealth accumulated by all forms of inequity, from… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is both foolish and wicked to teach the average man who is not well off that some wrong or injustice has… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is a great mistake to think that the extremist is a better man than the moderate. Usually the difference is not… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A good shot must necessarily be a good man since the essence of good marksmanship is self-control and self-control is the essential… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To borrow a simile from the football field, we believe that men must play fair, but that there must be no shirking,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It's not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of… — 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
