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
We shall make mistakes; and if we let these mistakes frighten us from our work we shall show ourselves weaklings. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A revolution is sometimes necessary, but if revolutions become habitual the country in which they take place is going down-hill — 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
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
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
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
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
'Liar' is just as ugly a word as 'thief,' because it implies the presence of just as ugly a sin in one… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In other words, character is far more important than intellect to the race as to the individual. We need intellect, and there… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If, in any individual, university training produces a taste for refined idleness, a distaste for sustained effort, a barren intellectual arrogance, or… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No man can lead a public career really worth leading, no man can act with rugged independence in serious crises, nor strike… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
You, the sons of the pioneers, if you are true to your ancestry, must make your lives as worthy as they made… — 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
If we lose the virile, manly qualities, and sink into a nation of mere hucksters, putting gain over national honor, and subordinating… — 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
Every thinking man, when he thinks, realizes that the teachings of the Bible are so interwoven and intertwined with our whole civic… — 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
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
The weakling and the coward are out of place in a strong and free community. In a republic like ours the governing… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The men of wealth who today are trying to prevent the regulation and control of their business in the interest of 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
Progress has brought us both unbounded opportunities and unbridled difficulties. Thus, the measure of our civilization will not be that we have… — 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
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
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
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
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
When I say I believe in a square deal i do not mean to give every man the best hand. If the… — 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
If an American is to amount to anything he must rely upon himself, and not upon the State; he must take pride… — 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
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 point, of course, where a man must take the isolated peak and break with all his associates for clear… — 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
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
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
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
In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates… — 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
