There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I am simply unable to understand the value placed by so many people upon great wealth. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Honesty first; then courage; then brains - and all are indispensable. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is not what we have that will make us a great nation; it is the way in which we use it. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Men can never escape being governed. Either they must govern themselves or they must submit to being governed by others. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We must all either wear out or rust out, every one of us. My choice is to wear out. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It's not having been in the Dark House, but having left it that counts. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I wish that all Americans would realize that American politics is world politics. — 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
“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
A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The wildlife and its habitat cannot speak, so we must and we will. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“I have only a second rate brain, but I think I have a capacity for action.” — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The leader works in the open and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives. — 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
