If elected, I shall see to it that every man has a square deal, no less and no more. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American and nothing but an American. If he tries to… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is of far more important that a man shall play something himself, even if he plays it badly, than that he… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I always believe in going hard at everything, whether it is Latin or mathematics, boxing or football, but at the same time… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The country is the place for children, and if not the country, a city small enough so that one can get out… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If a man has a very decided character, has a strongly accentuated career, it is normally the case of course that he… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
An Airedale can do anything any other dog can do and then whip the other dog if he has to. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Every child has inside him an aching void for excitement and if we don't fill it with something which is exciting and… — 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
We here in America, hold in our hands the hope of the world, the fate of the coming years; and shame and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If there ever was a pursuit which stultified itself by its very conditions, it is the pursuit of pleasure as the all-sufficing… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the… — 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
There is a point, of course, where a man must take the isolated peak and break with all his associates for clear… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The man who really counts in the world is the doer, not the mere critic -- the man who actually does the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I believe that this Republic will endure for many centuries. If so there will doubtless be among its Presidents Protestants and Catholics,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There are dreadful moments when death comes very near those we love, even if for the time being it passes by. But… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this without regard to whether… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If a strong man has not in him the lift toward lofty things, his strength makes him only a curse to himself… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If we seek merely swollen, slothful ease and ignoble peace, if we shrink from the hard contests where men must win at… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There is no reason why people should not call themselves Cubists, or Octagonists, or Parallelopipedonists, orKnights oftheIsoscelesTriangle, or Brothers of the Cosine,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If there is any one duty which more than another we owe it to our children and our children's children to perform… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I believe that the next half century will determine if we will advance the cause of Christian civilization or revert to the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
By acting as if I was not afraid, I gradually ceased to be afraid. — 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
