Duty Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt

Conservation is a great moral issue, for it involves the patriotic duty of insuring the safety and continuance of the nation.

— Theodore Roosevelt

We have duties to others, and duties to ourselves, and we cannot shirk either.

— Theodore Roosevelt

The performance of duty, and not an indulgence in vapid ease and vapid pleasure, is all that makes life worth while.

— Theodore Roosevelt

The first duty of an American citizen, then, is that he shall work in politics.

— Theodore Roosevelt

No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die and none are fit to die who have shrunk from…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves,…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The men and women who have the right ideals . . . are those who have the courage to strive for the…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The man who does not think it was America's duty to fight for her own sake in view of the infamous conduct…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The great corporations which we have grown to speak of rather loosely as trusts are the creatures of the State, and the…

— Theodore Roosevelt

A really great people, proud and high spirited, would face all the disasters of war rather than purchase that base prosperity which…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and…

— Theodore Roosevelt

For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Conservation means development as much as it does protection. I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Great corporations exist only because they are created and safeguarded by our institutions; and it is therefore our right and duty to…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves;…

— Theodore Roosevelt

When the time of danger comes, all Americans, whatever their social standing, whatever their creed, whatever the training they have received, no…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save…

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

Willful sterility is, from the standpoint of the nation, from the standpoint of the human race, the one sin for which the…

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

On the whole, we think that the greatest victories are yet to be won, the greatest deeds yet to be done, and…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Our loyalty is due entirely to the United States. It is due to the President only and exactly to the degree in…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Every man among us is more fit to meet the duties and responsibilities of citizenship because of the perils over which, in…

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

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

The weakling and the coward cannot be saved by honesty alone; but without honesty the brave and able man is merely a…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The duties are even more important than the rights; and in the long run I think that the reward is ampler and…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The greatest privilege and greatest duty for any man is to be happily married, and no other form of success or service,…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Rarely has any people enjoyed greater prosperity than we are now enjoying. For this we render heartfelt and solemn thanks to the…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The true Christians are the true citizens, lofty of purpose, resolute in endeavor, ready for a hero's deeds, but never looking down…

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

I ask of each Mason, of each member, of each brother, that he shall remember ever that there is upon him a…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The supreme duty of the Nation is the conservation of human resources through an enlightened measure of social and industrial justice. We…

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

The immigrant must not be allowed to drift or to be put at the mercy of the exploiter. Our object is not…

— Theodore Roosevelt

It is no limitation upon property rights or freedom of contract to require that when men receive from government the privilege of…

— Theodore Roosevelt

A soft, easy life is not worth living, if it impairs the fibre of brain and heart and muscle. We must dare…

— Theodore Roosevelt