From the very beginning our people have markedly combined practical capacity for affairs with power of devotion to an ideal. The lack… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A man's usefulness depends on his living up to his ideals insofar as he can. It is hard to fail but it… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Our words must be judged by our deeds; and in striving for a lofty ideal we must use practical methods; and if… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Let us show, not merely in great crises, but in every day of life, qualities of practical intelligence, of hardihood and endurance,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Freemasonry must stand upon the Rock of Truth, religion, political, social, and economic. Nothing is so worthy of its care as freedom… — 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
Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement. — 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
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
