Now, it is very necessary that we should not flinch from seeing what is vile and debasing. There is filth on the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No man can be a good citizen unless he has a wage more than sufficient to cover the bare cost of living,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We want the active and zealous help of every man far-sighted enough to realize the importance from the standpoint of the nation's… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Do not get into a fight if you can possibly avoid it. If you get in, see it through. Don't hit if… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Because we are unqualifiedly and without reservation against any system of denominational schools, maintained by the adherents of any creed with the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless; forests which are so used… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Never hit if you can help it, but when you have to, hit hard. Never hit soft. You'll never get any thanks… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Each man must work for himself, and unless he so works, no outside help can avail him. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Life is as if you were traveling a ridge crest. You have the gulf of inefficiency on one side and the gulf… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The spirit of brotherhood recognizes of necessity both the need of self-help and also the need of helping others in the only… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Don't hit at all if you can help it; don't hit a man if you can possibly avoid it; but if you… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If I were a factory employee, a workman on the railroads or a wage-earner of any sort, I would undoubtedly join the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort; the man who never wrongs… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The first requisite of a good citizen in this Republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him,… — 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
