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
There are those who believe that a new modernity demands a new morality. What they fail to consider is the harsh reality… — 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
This country has nothing to fear from the crooked man who fails. We put him in jail. It is the crooked man… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
One of the fundamental necessities in a representative government such as ours is to make certain that the men to whom the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A President has a great chance; his position is almost that of a king and a prime minister rolled into one. Once… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When we undertake the impossible, we often fail to do anything at all. — 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
The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great enthusiasums, the great devotions,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We stand for a living wage. Wages are subnormal if they fail to provide a living for those who devote their time… — 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
