There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. To put an end to it will be neither… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
While the nation that has dared to be great, that has had the will and the power to change the destiny of… — 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
The true friend of property, the true conservative, is he who insists that property shall be the servant and not the master… — 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
The plea of good intentions is not one that can be allowed to have much weight in passing historical judgment upon a… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To the second end, we hold that minimum wage commissions should be established in the Nation and in each State to inquire… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When great nations fear to expand, shrink from expansion, it is because their greatness is coming to an end. Are we, still… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer… — 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
