Under government ownership corruption can flourish just as rankly as under private ownership. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The government is us; WE are the government, you and I."- Theodore Roosevelt — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the state because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The labor unions shall have a square deal, and the corporations shall have a square deal, and in addition, all private citizens… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“The President and the Congress are all very well in their way. They can say what they think they think, but it… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Ours is a government of liberty by, through, and under the law. A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The corporation that shrinks from the light" would have anything to fear from government. About the welfare of such corporations we need… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In popular government results worth while can only be achieved by men who combine worthy ideals with practical good sense. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
[Among the books he chooses, a statesman] ought to read interesting books on history and government, and books of science and philosophy;… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is the people, and not the judges, who are entitled to say what their constitution means, for the constitution is theirs,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
These international bankers and Rockefeller Standard Oil interests control the majority of newspapers and the columns of these papers to club into… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The object of government is the welfare of the people. The material progress and prosperity of a nation are desirable chiefly so… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We cannot afford to differ on the question of honesty if we expect our republic permanently to endure. Honesty is not so… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is no limitation upon property rights or freedom of contract to require that when men receive from government the privilege of… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The function of our Government is to insure to all its citizens, now and hereafter, their rights to life, liberty, and the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The important thing is this: that, under such government recognition as we may give to that which is beneficent and wholesome in… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Our government, National and State, must be freed from the sinister influence or control of special interests. Exactly as the special interests… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The words of the Declaration of Independence, as given effect by Washington...are to be accepted as real, and not as empty phrases...that… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Of all the officers of the Government, those of the Department of Justice should be kept most free from any suspicion of… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The weakling and the coward are out of place in a strong and free community. In a republic like ours the governing… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In the history of mankind many republics have risen, have flourished for a less or greater time, and then have fallen because… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The men of wealth who today are trying to prevent the regulation and control of their business in the interest of 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
The fortunes amassed through corporate organization are now so large, and vest such power in those that wield them, as to make… — 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
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
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