If I have to choose between peace and righteousness, I'll choose righteousness. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Make preparations in advance ... you never have trouble if you are prepared for it. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A President has a great chance; his position is almost that of a king and a prime minister rolled into one. Once… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There is a homely old adage which runs: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." If the American… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If we put corrupt men in public office and sneeringly acquiesce in their corruptions, then we are wrong ourselves. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Ruin looks us in the face if we judge a man by his position instead of judging him by his conduct in… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The function of our Government is to insure to all its citizens, now and hereafter, their rights to life, liberty, and the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is an incalculable added pleasure to any one's sum of happiness if he or she grows to know, even slightly and… — 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
If we would have our citizens contented and law-abiding, we must not sow the seeds of discontent in childhood by denying children… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Yes, my friend, and if you will steal for me then you will steal from me. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Death is always, under all circumstances, a tragedy, for if it is not then it means that life has become one. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The need for collecting large campaign funds would vanish if Congress provided an appropriation for the proper and legitimate expenses of each… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Those who oppose all reform will do well to remember that ruin in its worst form is inevitable if our national life… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When I hear of the destruction of a species, I feel just as if all the works of some great writer have… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Unjust war is to be abhorred; but woe to the nation that does not make ready to hold its own in time… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There are good men and bad men of all nationalities, creeds and colors; and if this world of ours is ever to… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Each child represents either a potential addition to the protective capacity and enlightened citizenship of the nation or, if allowed to suffer… — 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
A soft, easy life is not worth living, if it impairs the fibre of brain and heart and muscle. We must dare… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If we are to be really great people, we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world.… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Rattlesnakes are only too plentiful everywhere; along the river bottoms, in the broken, hilly ground, and on the prairies and the great… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Optimism is a good characteristic, but if carried to an excess, it becomes foolishness. We are prone to speak of the resources… — 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
