Despotism Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

— Theodore Roosevelt

There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Argument weak; speak loudly!

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

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

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

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

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

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

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