Let the watchwords of all our people be the old familiar watchwords of honesty, decency, fair-dealing, and commonsense."... "We must treat each… — 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
It is a great mistake to think that the extremist is a better man than the moderate. Usually the difference is not… — 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,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If elected, I shall see to it that every man has a square deal, no less and no more. — 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
I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There is nothing more distressing ... than the hard, scoffing spirit which treats the allegation of dishonesty in a public man as… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A man's usefulness depends on his living up to his ideals insofar as he can. It is hard to fail but it… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
And it is through strife and the readiness for strife that a man or a nation must win greatness. So, let the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American and nothing but an American. If he tries to… — 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
Now, it is very necessary that we should not flinch from seeing what is vile and debasing. There is filth on the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is of far more important that a man shall play something himself, even if he plays it badly, than that he… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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
If a man has a very decided character, has a strongly accentuated career, it is normally the case of course that he… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No man can be a good citizen unless he has a wage more than sufficient to cover the bare cost of living,… — 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
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 best lesson that any people can learn is that there is no patent cure-all which will make the body politic perfect,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A just war is in the long run far better for a man's soul than the most prosperous peace — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The absence of effective State, and, especially, national, restraint upon unfair money-getting has tended to create a small class of enormously wealthy… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Among the wise and high-minded people who in self-respecting and genuine fashion strive earnestly for peace, there are the foolish fanatics always… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Show me a man who makes no mistakes, and I will show you a man who doesn't do things. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The eighth commandment reads, "Thou shalt not steal." It does not read, "Thou shalt not steal from the rich man." It does… — 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
