The decisions of the courts on economic and social questions depend on their economic and social philosophy. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
All contributions by corporations to any political committee or for any political purpose should be forbidden by law — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We must diligently strive to make our young men decent, God-fearing, law-abiding, honor-loving, justice-doing and also fearless and strong. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I believe that the officers, and, especially, the directors, of corporations should be held personally responsible when any corporation breaks the law. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Ours is a government of liberty by, through, and under the law. A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon… — 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
The biggest corporation, like the humblest private citizen, must be held to strict compliance with the will of the people as expressed… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
All that the law can do is to shape things so that no injustice shall be done by one to the other,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Every expansion of civilization makes for peace. In other words, every expansion of a great civilized power means a victory for law,… — 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… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I have now run up against an ugly snag, the Sunday Excise Law. It is altogether too strict, but I have no… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There never has been devised, and there never will be devised, any law which will enable a man to succeed save by… — 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
I highly venerate the Masonic Institution, under the fullest persuasion that, when its principles are acknowledged and its laws and precepts obeyed,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The great lawyer who employs his talent and his learning in the highly emunerative task of enabling a very wealthy client to… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To permit every lawless capitalist, every law-defying corporation, to take any action, no matter how iniquitous, in the effort to secure an… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The true Christians are the true citizens, lofty of purpose, resolute in endeavor, ready for a hero's deeds, but never looking down… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is imperative to exercise over big business a control and supervision which is unnecessary as regards small business. All business must… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To the second end, we hold that minimum wage commissions should be established in the Nation and in each State to inquire… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Laws are essential emanations from the self-poised character of God; they radiate from the sun to the circling edge of creation. Verily,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
You cannot create prosperity by law. Sustained thrift, industry, application, intelligence, are the only things that ever do, or ever will, create… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The Constitution guarantees protection to property, and we must make that promise good. But it does not give the right of suffrage… — 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