Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I would a great deal rather be anything, say professor of history, than vice president. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is well indeed for out land that we of this generation have learned to think nationally. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune-make for a finer, nobler type of manhood. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“There has never yet been a person in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.” — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I want to see you game, boys, I want to see you brave and manly, and I also want to see you… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Nowhere, not at sea, does a man feel more lonely than when riding over the far-reaching, seemingly never-ending plains... — 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
Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its… — 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
Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I can no more explain why I like "natural history" than why I like California canned peaches; nor why I do not… — 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
Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die and none are fit to die who have shrunk from… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The greatest historian should also be a great moralist. It is no proof of impartiality to treat wickedness and goodness on the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Conservation means development as much as it does protection. A man's usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals insofar as… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
While my interest in natural history has added very little to my sum of achievement, it has added immeasurably to my sum… — 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 nation behaves well if it treats its natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Materially we must strive to secure a broader economic opportunity for all men, so that each shall have a better chance to… — 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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