Let the watchwords of all our people be the old familiar watchwords of honesty, decency, fair-dealing, and commonsense."... "We must treat each… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If elected, I shall see to it that every man has a square deal, no less and no more. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The best lesson that any people can learn is that there is no patent cure-all which will make the body politic perfect,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I can no more explain why I like "natural history" than why I like California canned peaches; nor why I do not… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It was a pleasure to deal with a man of high ideals, who scorned everything mean and base, and who possessed those… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Although not a very old man, I have yet lived a great deal in my life, and I have known sorrow too… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when any one engaged in… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I would a great deal rather be anything, say professor of history, than vice president. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The labor unions shall have a square deal, and the corporations shall have a square deal, and in addition, all private citizens… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
... the Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war, and the failure to act against Turkey is to condone it… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I stand for the square deal. I mean not merely that I stand for fair play under the present rules of the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When I say I believe in a square deal i do not mean to give every man the best hand. If 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
