By acting as if I was not afraid, I gradually ceased to be afraid. — 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
Get action. Do things; be sane; don't fritter away your time; create, act, take a place wherever you are and be somebody;… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women… — 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… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Freemasonry teaches not merely temperance, fortitude, prudence, justice, brotherly love, relief, and truth, but liberty, equality, and fraternity, and it denounces ignorance,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Willful sterility is, from the standpoint of the nation, from the standpoint of the human race, the one sin for which the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Some reformers may urge that in the ages distant future, patriotism, like the habit of monogamous marriage, will become a needless and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Love of peace is common among weak, short-sighted, timid, and lazy persons; and on the other hand courage is found among many… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
You can't choose your potential, but you can choose to fulfill it. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Most of us tiptoe through life in order to make it safely to death. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Do Something Now. If not you, who? If not here, where? If not now, when? — 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
The Welfare of Each of Us Is Dependent Fundamentally Upon the Welfare of All of Us — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Freedom is not a gift which can be enjoyed save by those shown themselves worthy of it. — 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
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
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
