Optimism is a good characteristic, but if carried to an excess, it becomes foolishness. We are prone to speak of the resources… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A revolution is sometimes necessary, but if revolutions become habitual the country in which they take place is going down-hill — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The Americans of other blood must remember that the man who in good faith and without reservations gives up another country for… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
After nightfall the face of the country seems to alter marvelously, and the clear moonlight only intensifies the change. The river gleams… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In speaking to you men of the greatest city of the West, men of the state which gave to the country Lincoln… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Some reformers may urge that in the ages distant future, patriotism, like the habit of monogamous marriage, will become a needless and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I hold that in this country there must be complete severance of Church and State; that public moneys shall not be used… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There can be no greater issue than that of conservation in this country. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I do not dislike but I certainly have no especial respect or admiration for and no trust in, the typical big moneyed… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
...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 Copy Share Image
90% of the work in this country is done by people who don't feel good". — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If there is one thing for which we stand in this country, it is for complete religious freedom, and it is an… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The great lawyer who employs his talent and his learning in the highly emunerative task of enabling a very wealthy client to… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We have room in this country for but one flag, the Stars and Stripes! — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not… — 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
