The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No people ever yet benefited by riches if their prosperity corrupted their virtue. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To exist as a nation, to prosper as a state, and to live as a people, we must have trees. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I am simply unable to understand the value placed by so many people upon great wealth. — 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 Image
I wish very much that the wrong people could be prevented entirely from breeding — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The mass of the American people are most emphatically not in the deplorable condition of which you speak. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The Constitution was made for the people and not the people for the Constitution. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The object of government is the welfare of the people. The material progress and prosperity of a nation are desirable chiefly so… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I have now run up against an ugly snag, the Sunday Excise Law. It is altogether too strict, but I have no… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If we are to be really great people, we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world.… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There comes a time in the life of a nation, as in the life of an individual, when it must face great… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A really great people, proud and high spirited, would face all the disasters of war rather than purchase that base prosperity which… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No people on earth have more cause to be thankful than ours, and this is said reverently, in no spirit of boastfulness… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There is no reason why people should not call themselves Cubists, or Octagonists, or Parallelopipedonists, orKnights oftheIsoscelesTriangle, or Brothers of the Cosine,… — 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
In the history of mankind many republics have risen, have flourished for a less or greater time, and then have fallen because… — 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
In order to succeed we need leaders of inspired idealism, leaders to whom are granted great visions, who dream greatly and strive… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There can be nothing in the world more beautiful than the Yosemite, the groves of the giant sequoias and redwoods, the Canyon… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The fortunes amassed through corporate organization are now so large, and vest such power in those that wield them, as to make… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Let the watchwords of all our people be the old familiar watchwords of honesty, decency, fair-dealing, and commonsense."... "We must treat each… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I believe that this Republic will endure for many centuries. If so there will doubtless be among its Presidents Protestants and Catholics,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
90% of the work in this country is done by people who don't feel good". — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is only the warlike power of a civilized people that can give peace to the world. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The American people are slow to wrath, but when their wrath is once kindled it burns like a consuming flame. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Free speech exercised both individually and through a free press, is a necessity in any country where people are themselves free. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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
Among the wise and high-minded people who in self-respecting and genuine fashion strive earnestly for peace, there are the foolish fanatics always… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends… — 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
Wild beasts and birds are by right not the property merely of the people today, but the property of the unborn generations,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
From the very beginning our people have markedly combined practical capacity for affairs with power of devotion to an ideal. The lack… — 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
