I am a strong individualist by personal habit, inheritance, and conviction; but it is a mere matter of common sense to recognize… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
No man can be a good citizen unless he has a wage more than sufficient to cover the bare cost of living,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No man who is not willing to bear arms and to fight for his rights can give a good reason why he… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The weakling and the coward cannot be saved by honesty alone; but without honesty the brave and able man is merely a… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I believe in corporations. They are indispensable instruments of our modern civilization. But I believe they should be so regulated that they… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I think we are warranted in contending that a society thus constituted, and which may be rendered so admirable an engine of… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Each child represents either a potential addition to the protective capacity and enlightened citizenship of the nation or, if allowed to suffer… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Any man who tries to excite class hatred, sectional hate, hate of creeds, any kind of hatred in our community, though he… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In every community there are little knots of fantastic extremists who loudly proclaim that they are striving for righteousness, and who, in… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
What a man does for himself, dies with him. What a man does for his community lives long after he's gone. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The weakling and the coward are out of place in a strong and free community. In a republic like ours the governing… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Of one man in especial, beyond any one else, the citizens of a republic should beware, and that is of the man… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is imperative to exercise over big business a control and supervision which is unnecessary as regards small business. All business must… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Fellow-feeling. . .is the most important factor in producing a healthy political and social life. Neither our national nor our local civic… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A churchless community, a community where men have abandoned and scoffed at or ignored their religious needs, is a community on 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
