The greatest privilege and greatest duty for any man is to be happily married, and no other form of success or service,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A man's usefulness depends on his living up to his ideals insofar as he can. It is hard to fail but it… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I ask of each Mason, of each member, of each brother, that he shall remember ever that there is upon him a… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We have duties to others, and duties to ourselves, and we cannot shirk either. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I hold it to be our duty to see that the wage-worker, the small producer, the ordinary consumer, shall get their fair… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The duties are even more important than the rights; and in the long run I think that the reward is ampler and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
On the whole, we think that the greatest victories are yet to be won, the greatest deeds yet to be done, and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The first duty of an American citizen, then, is that he shall work in politics. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If there is any one duty which more than another we owe it to our children and our children's children to perform… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The men and women who have the right ideals . . . are those who have the courage to strive for the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves;… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Every man among us is more fit to meet the duties and responsibilities of citizenship because of the perils over which, in… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Rarely has any people enjoyed greater prosperity than we are now enjoying. For this we render heartfelt and solemn thanks to the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Everything is un-American that tends either to government by a plutocracy or government by a mob. To divide along the lines of… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A really great people, proud and high spirited, would face all the disasters of war rather than purchase that base prosperity which… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The weakling and the coward cannot be saved by honesty alone; but without honesty the brave and able man is merely a… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The immigrant must not be allowed to drift or to be put at the mercy of the exploiter. Our object is not… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When the time of danger comes, all Americans, whatever their social standing, whatever their creed, whatever the training they have received, no… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Our duty to the whole, including the unborn generations, bids us to restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage of… — 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
