Government Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt

Kings and such are just as funny as politicians.

— Theodore Roosevelt

McKinley shows all the background of a chocolate eclair.

— Theodore Roosevelt

The government is us; WE are the government, you and I."- Theodore Roosevelt

— Theodore Roosevelt

The object of government is the welfare of the people.

— Theodore Roosevelt

The bulk of government is not legislation but administration.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Under government ownership corruption can flourish just as rankly as under private ownership.

— Theodore Roosevelt

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

— Theodore Roosevelt

In popular government results worth while can only be achieved by men who combine worthy ideals with practical good sense.

— Theodore Roosevelt

The corporation that shrinks from the light" would have anything to fear from government. About the welfare of such corporations we need…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Ours is a government of liberty by, through, and under the law. A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“The President and the Congress are all very well in their way. They can say what they think they think, but it…

— Theodore Roosevelt

There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The labor unions shall have a square deal, and the corporations shall have a square deal, and in addition, all private citizens…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the state because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this…

— Theodore Roosevelt

We cannot afford to differ on the question of honesty if we expect our republic permanently to endure. Honesty is not so…

— Theodore Roosevelt

These international bankers and Rockefeller Standard Oil interests control the majority of newspapers and the columns of these papers to club into…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The object of government is the welfare of the people. The material progress and prosperity of a nation are desirable chiefly so…

— Theodore Roosevelt

It is the people, and not the judges, who are entitled to say what their constitution means, for the constitution is theirs,…

— Theodore Roosevelt

[Among the books he chooses, a statesman] ought to read interesting books on history and government, and books of science and philosophy;…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The fortunes amassed through corporate organization are now so large, and vest such power in those that wield them, as to make…

— Theodore Roosevelt

One of the fundamental necessities in a representative government such as ours is to make certain that the men to whom the…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The weakling and the coward are out of place in a strong and free community. In a republic like ours the governing…

— Theodore Roosevelt

In the history of mankind many republics have risen, have flourished for a less or greater time, and then have fallen because…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The men of wealth who today are trying to prevent the regulation and control of their business in the interest of 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

There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and…

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

Of all the officers of the Government, those of the Department of Justice should be kept most free from any suspicion of…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The important thing is this: that, under such government recognition as we may give to that which is beneficent and wholesome in…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Our government, National and State, must be freed from the sinister influence or control of special interests. Exactly as the special interests…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The function of our Government is to insure to all its citizens, now and hereafter, their rights to life, liberty, and the…

— 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