Conditions Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt

The dull, purblind folly of the very rich men, their greed and arrogance, and the corruption in business and politics, have tended…

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

— 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

Such an experiment without actual conditions of war to support it is a foolish waste of time. . . . I once…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The public must retain control of the great waterways. It is essential that any permit to obstruct them for reasons and on…

— 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

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

— 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

The absence of effective State, and, especially, national, restraint upon unfair money-getting has tended to create a small class of enormously wealthy…

— Theodore Roosevelt

There must be no division by class hatred, whether this hatred be that of creed against creed, nationality against nationality, section against…

— Theodore Roosevelt

If there ever was a pursuit which stultified itself by its very conditions, it is the pursuit of pleasure as the all-sufficing…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The important thing is this: that, under such government recognition as we may give to that which is beneficent and wholesome in…

— Theodore Roosevelt

We stand for a living wage. Wages are subnormal if they fail to provide a living for those who devote their time…

— Theodore Roosevelt