Theodore Roosevelt

With great victory comes great sacrifice.

— Theodore Roosevelt

We do not admire a man of timid peace.

— Theodore Roosevelt

We are the heirs of the ages

— Theodore Roosevelt

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Power always brings with it responsibility.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Don't spread patriotism too thin.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Then get busy and find out how to do it.

— Theodore Roosevelt

The worst thing I can do is nothing.

— Theodore Roosevelt

“If I must choose between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

It is no use to preach to [children] if you do not act decently yourself.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Malefactors of great wealth have arrogantly ignored the public welfare.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Where a trust becomes a monopoly the state has an immediate right to interfere.

— Theodore Roosevelt

I do not care a rap as to who gets credit for the work, provided the work is done.

— Theodore Roosevelt

The extermination of the buffalo has been a veritable tragedy of the animal world.

— Theodore Roosevelt

We have room in this country for but one flag, the Stars and Stripes!

— Theodore Roosevelt

We want men who will fix their eyes on the stars, but who will not forget that their feet must walk on…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Rough board shelves hold a number of books, without which some of the evenings would be long indeed.

— Theodore Roosevelt

“Then there was Micah Jenkins, the Captain of Troop K, a gentle and courteous South Carolinian, on whom danger acted like wine.…

— Theodore Roosevelt

We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Never, never, you must never either of you remind a man at work on a political job that he may be President.

— Theodore Roosevelt

I am far from underestimating the importance of dividends, but I rank dividends below human character.

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

It is of far more important that a man shall play something himself, even if he plays it badly, than that he…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Our country, we have faith to believe, is only at the beginning of its growth. Unless the forests of the United States…

— Theodore Roosevelt

We must remember not to judge any public servant by any one act, and especially should we beware of attacking the men…

— Theodore Roosevelt

... looked at from the standpoint of the ultimate result, there was little real difference to the Indian whether the land was…

— Theodore Roosevelt

There is no good reason why we should fear the future, but there is every reason why we should face it seriously,…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Let us show, not merely in great crises, but in every day of life, qualities of practical intelligence, of hardihood and endurance,…

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

Willful sterility is, from the standpoint of the nation, from the standpoint of the human race, the one sin for which the…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“The men worked hard and faithfully. As a rule, in spite of the number of rough characters among them, they behaved very…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The weakling and the coward are out of place in a strong and free community. In a republic like ours the governing…

— Theodore Roosevelt

In the history of mankind many republics have risen, have flourished for a less or greater time, and then have fallen because…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“All of our territory lying beyond the Alleghanies, north and south, was first won for us by the Southwesterners, fighting for their…

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

A finer body of men has never been gathered by any nation than the men who have done the work of building…

— Theodore Roosevelt

On the whole, we think that the greatest victories are yet to be won, the greatest deeds yet to be done, and…

— Theodore Roosevelt