Theodore Roosevelt

I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.

— Theodore Roosevelt

“Now and then I am asked as to ‘what books a statesman should read,’ and my answer is, poetry and novels –…

— Theodore Roosevelt

I believe in a graduated income tax on big fortunes, and in . . . a graduated inheritance tax on big fortunes,…

— Theodore Roosevelt

We should not forget that it will be just as important to our descendants to be prosperous in their time as it…

— Theodore Roosevelt

We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with a high and resolute courage.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Anything that encourages pauperism, anything that relaxes the manly fiber and lowers self-respect, is an unmixed evil.

— Theodore Roosevelt

The labor unions shall have a square deal, and the corporations shall have a square deal, and in addition, all private citizens…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves,…

— Theodore Roosevelt

If we lose the virile, manly qualities, and sink into a nation of mere hucksters, putting gain over national honor, and subordinating…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Rattlesnakes are only too plentiful everywhere; along the river bottoms, in the broken, hilly ground, and on the prairies and the great…

— Theodore Roosevelt

We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort; the man who never wrongs…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Every person who invests in well-selected real estate in a growing section of a prosperous community adopts the surest and safest method…

— Theodore Roosevelt

To discriminate against a thoroughly upright citizen because he belongs to some particular church, or because, like Abraham Lincoln, he has not…

— Theodore Roosevelt

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought,…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Unjust war is to be abhorred; but woe to the nation that does not make ready to hold its own in time…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Freemasonry must stand upon the Rock of Truth, religion, political, social, and economic. Nothing is so worthy of its care as freedom…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Our government, National and State, must be freed from the sinister influence or control of special interests. Exactly as the special interests…

— Theodore Roosevelt

To the second end, we hold that minimum wage commissions should be established in the Nation and in each State to inquire…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“in the writing of good English is indispensable to any learned man who expects to make his learning count for what it…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life.

— Theodore Roosevelt

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles,…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The highest form of success comes to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship or from bitter toil, and…

— Theodore Roosevelt

In the Grand Canyon, Arizona has a natural wonder which is in kind absolutely unparalleled throughout the rest of the world.

— Theodore Roosevelt

A President has a great chance; his position is almost that of a king and a prime minister rolled into one.

— Theodore Roosevelt

It is not what we have that will make us a great nation; it is the way in which we use it.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Men can never escape being governed. Either they must govern themselves or they must submit to being governed by others.

— Theodore Roosevelt

“The nation behaves well if it treats its natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased,…

— Theodore Roosevelt

There are rainy days in autumn and stormy days in winter when the rocking chair in front of the fire simply demands…

— Theodore Roosevelt

I have always said I would not have been President had it not been for my experience in North Dakota.

— Theodore Roosevelt

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Profanity is the parlance of the fool. Why curse when there is such a magnificent language with which to discourse?

— Theodore Roosevelt

The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“There has never yet been a person in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

No man who is not willing to bear arms and to fight for his rights can give a good reason why he…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Never trust a man who says he is only a little crooked, and that the crookedness is exercised in your interest.

— Theodore Roosevelt

All for each, and each for all, is a good motto; but only on condition that each works with might and main…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants them to do, and…

— Theodore Roosevelt