There is nothing more distressing ... than the hard, scoffing spirit which treats the allegation of dishonesty in a public man as… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The settler and pioneer have at bottom had justice on their side; this great continent could not have been kept as nothing… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There never has been devised, and there never will be devised, any law which will enable a man to succeed save by… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To have acted otherwise ... would have been the betrayal of the interests of the United States. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
This broken country extends back from the river for many miles and has been called always be Indian, French voyager and American… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There are always in life countless tendencies for good and for evil, and each succeeding generation sees some of these tendencies strengthened… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
From its origin to the present hour, in all its vicissitudes, Masonry has been the steady unwearing friend of man. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves;… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words." — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves,… — 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
In the Grand Canyon, Arizona has a natural wonder which is in kind absolutely unparalleled throughout the rest of the world. I… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Leave it as it is. You can not improve on it. You can only mar it. The ages have been at work… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A finer body of men has never been gathered by any nation than the men who have done the work of building… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is both foolish and wicked to teach the average man who is not well off that some wrong or injustice has… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Our loyalty is due entirely to the United States. It is due to the President only and exactly to the degree in… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called ''weasel words.'' When a weasel sucks… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The extermination of the buffalo has been a veritable tragedy of the animal world. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is imperative to exercise over big business a control and supervision which is unnecessary as regards small business. All business must… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I have always said I would not have been President had it not been for my experience in North Dakota. — 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