“I am no advocate of senseless and excessive cramming in studies, but a boy should work, and should work hard, at his… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There are two things that I want you to make up your minds to: first, that you are going to have a… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“The greatest gift life has to offer is the opportunity to work hard at work worth doing.” — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize… — 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