Mean Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt

Death is always, under all circumstances, a tragedy, for if it is not then it means that life has become one.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Unrestrained greed means the ruin of the great woods and the drying up of the sources of the rivers.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Conservation means development as much as it does protection.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood - the virtues that made America.

— Theodore Roosevelt

A small politician, of low capacity and mean surroundings, proud to act as the servile tool of men worse than himself but…

— Theodore Roosevelt

If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base and…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Conservation means development as much as it does protection. A man's usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals insofar as…

— Theodore Roosevelt

It is by no means necessary that a great nation should always stand at the heroic level. But no nation has the…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Conservation of our resources is the fundamental question before this nation, and that our first and greatest task is to set our…

— Theodore Roosevelt

There were all kinds of things I was afraid of at first, ranging from grizzly bears to 'mean' horses and gun-fighters; but…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Water is a commodity not by any means to be found everywhere...When found, it is more than likely to be bad, being…

— Theodore Roosevelt

I stand for the square deal. I mean not merely that I stand for fair play under the present rules of the…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Such an experiment without actual conditions of war to support it is a foolish waste of time. . . . I once…

— Theodore Roosevelt

There is a delight in the hardy life of the open. There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of…

— Theodore Roosevelt

It was a pleasure to deal with a man of high ideals, who scorned everything mean and base, and who possessed those…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Our country, we have faith to believe, is only at the beginning of its growth. Unless the forests of the United States…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Conservation means development as much as it does protection. I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficultyI have never in my life envied…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Every thinking man, when he thinks, realizes that the teachings of the Bible are so interwoven and intertwined with our whole civic…

— Theodore Roosevelt

We of an older generation can get along with what we have, though with growing hardship; but in your full manhood and…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save…

— Theodore Roosevelt

There are always in life countless tendencies for good and for evil, and each succeeding generation sees some of these tendencies strengthened…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Freemasonry must stand upon the Rock of Truth, religion, political, social, and economic. Nothing is so worthy of its care as freedom…

— Theodore Roosevelt

It is the people, and not the judges, who are entitled to say what their constitution means, for the constitution is theirs,…

— Theodore Roosevelt

I regard the Masonic institution as one of the means ordained by the Supreme Architect to enable mankind to work out the…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The great body of our citizens shoot less as times goes on. We should encourage rifle practice among schoolboys, and indeed among…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Every expansion of civilization makes for peace. In other words, every expansion of a great civilized power means a victory for law,…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The vice of envy is not only a dangerous, but a mean vice; for it is always a confession of inferiority. It…

— Theodore Roosevelt

... the Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war, and the failure to act against Turkey is to condone it…

— Theodore Roosevelt

There is need of a sound body, and even more need of a sound mind. But above mind and above body stands…

— Theodore Roosevelt

When I say I believe in a square deal i do not mean to give every man the best hand. If the…

— Theodore Roosevelt