All privileges based on wealth, and all emnity to honest men merely because they are wealthy, are un-American. — 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 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 bosses of the Democratic party and the bosses of the Republican party alike have a closer grip than ever before on… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is no limitation upon property rights or freedom of contract to require that when men receive from government the privilege of… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To permit every lawless capitalist, every law-defying corporation, to take any action, no matter how iniquitous, in the effort to secure an… — 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
It is imperative to exercise over big business a control and supervision which is unnecessary as regards small business. All business must… — 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
