Materially we must strive to secure a broader economic opportunity for all men, so that each shall have a better chance to… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Our country, we have faith to believe, is only at the beginning of its growth. Unless the forests of the United States… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No greater wrong can ever be done than to put a good man at the mercy of a bad, while telling him… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The true friend of property, the true conservative, is he who insists that property shall be the servant and not the master… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No ordinary work done by a man is either as hard or as responsible as the work of a woman who is… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I wish to say seriously to all the daily newspapers, to the Republicans, the Democrat, and Socialist parties, that they cannot, month… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When she (my mother) passed away, I kind of understood the commitment that she made to make sure that I could stay… — 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
A finer body of men has never been gathered by any nation than the men who have done the work of building… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We face the future with our past and our present as guarantors of our promises; and we are content to stand or… — 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
The United States does not have a choice as to whether or not is will or will not play a great part… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood - the virtues that made America. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The words of the Declaration of Independence, as given effect by Washington...are to be accepted as real, and not as empty phrases...that… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The Constitution was made for the people and not the people for the Constitution. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I have often been afraid, but I would not give in to it. I made myself act as though I was not… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
...let men express the intense admiration, which I share with all other Americans, of the record made by the Marines. — 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