Theodore Roosevelt

It either is or ought to be evident to everyone that business has to prosper before anyone can get any benefit from…

— Theodore Roosevelt

This broken country extends back from the river for many miles and has been called always be Indian, French voyager and American…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The country is the place for children, and if not the country, a city small enough so that one can get out…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the state because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of…

— Theodore Roosevelt

An Airedale can do anything any other dog can do and then whip the other dog if he has to.

— Theodore Roosevelt

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The forces that tend for evil are great and terrible, but the forces of truth and love and courage and honesty and…

— Theodore Roosevelt

All privileges based on wealth, and all emnity to honest men merely because they are wealthy, are un-American.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Over-sentimentality, over-softness, in fact washiness and mushiness are the great dangers of this age and of this people. Unless we keep the…

— Theodore Roosevelt

From reading of the people I admired - ranging from the soldiers of Valley Forge and Morgan's riflemen to my Southern forefathers…

— Theodore Roosevelt

...short-sighted men who in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination…

— Theodore Roosevelt

When I say I believe in a square deal i do not mean to give every man the best hand. If the…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Every man owes a part of his time and money to the business or industry in which he is engaged. No man…

— Theodore Roosevelt

There is need of a sound body, and even more need of a sound mind. But above mind and above body stands…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena..who errs, who comes short again and again; but who does…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The greatest privilege and greatest duty for any man is to be happily married, and no other form of success or service,…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Our flag is a proud flag, and it stands for liberty and civilization. Where it has once floated, there must be no…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The mass of the American people are most emphatically not in the deplorable condition of which you speak.

— Theodore Roosevelt

At sometime in our lives a devil dwells within us, causes heartbreaks, confusion and troubles, then dies.

— Theodore Roosevelt

It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena...

— Theodore Roosevelt

What I have advocated is not wild radicalism. It is the highest and wisest kind of conservatism.

— Theodore Roosevelt

In doing your work in the great world, it is a safe plan to follow a rule I once heard on the…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Wild beasts and birds are by right not the property merely of the people today, but the property of the unborn generations,…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The joy of living is his who has the heart to demand it. Life is a great adventure, and I want to…

— Theodore Roosevelt

I don't think any President ever enjoyed himself more than I did. Moreover, I don't think any ex-President ever enjoyed himself more.

— Theodore Roosevelt

The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune.

— Theodore Roosevelt

A good shot must necessarily be a good man since the essence of good marksmanship is self-control and self-control is the essential…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Under government ownership corruption can flourish just as rankly as under private ownership.

— Theodore Roosevelt

While my interest in natural history has added very little to my sum of achievement, it has added immeasurably to my sum…

— Theodore Roosevelt

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask…

— Theodore Roosevelt

There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100% Americanism, only for those who are…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Free speech exercised both individually and through a free press, is a necessity in any country where people are themselves free.

— Theodore Roosevelt

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The foes from whom we pray to be delivered are our own passions, appetites, and follies; and against these there is always…

— Theodore Roosevelt

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

— Theodore Roosevelt

No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from us, and that true homage comes from…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The one being abhorrent to the powers above the earth and under them is the hyphenated American

— Theodore Roosevelt

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I…

— Theodore Roosevelt