No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages, though it is apt to be also the most terrible… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In a civilized and cultivated country wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen. the excellent people who… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A nation that still needs to distinguish between stealing an election, and stealing a new pair of shoes, is not completely civilized… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In a civilized and cultivated country, wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Every expansion of civilization makes for peace. In other words, every expansion of a great civilized power means a victory for law,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is only the warlike power of a civilized people that can give peace to the world. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The civilized people of today look back with horror at their medieval ancestors who wantonly destroyed great works of art or sat… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
My position as regards the monied interests can be put in a few words. In every civilized society property rights must be… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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 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 Image
There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
