A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.” — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“...the majority in a democracy has no more right to tyrannize over a minority than, under a different system, the latter would… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Ours is a government of liberty by, through, and under the law. A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“We must hold to a rigid accountability those public servants who show unfaithfulness to the interests of the nation or inability to… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought,… — 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
I wish to say seriously to all the daily newspapers, to the Republicans, the Democrat, and Socialist parties, that they cannot, month… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In the history of mankind many republics have risen, have flourished for a less or greater time, and then have fallen because… — 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
