We have a right to expect that the best trained, the best educated men on the Pacific slope, the Rocky Mountains, and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Certain rich men, whose lives are evil and corrupt, are the representatives of predatory wealth accumulated by all forms of inequity, from… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The man who really counts in the world is the doer, not the mere critic -- the man who actually does the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If a strong man has not in him the lift toward lofty things, his strength makes him only a curse to himself… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If we seek merely swollen, slothful ease and ignoble peace, if we shrink from the hard contests where men must win at… — 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
Never, never, you must never either of you remind a man at work on a political job that he may be President. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A man must first care for his own household before he can be of use to the state. But no matter how… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The dull, purblind folly of the very rich men, their greed and arrogance, and the corruption in business and politics, have tended… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The men and women who have the right ideals . . . are those who have the courage to strive for the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
From its origin to the present hour, in all its vicissitudes, Masonry has been the steady unwearing friend of man. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
War is not merely justifiable, but imperative upon honorable men, upon an honorable nation, where peace can only be obtained by the… — 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
A healthy state can exist only when the men and women who make it up lead clean, vigorous, healthy lives; when the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
One of the fundamental necessities in a representative government such as ours is to make certain that the men to whom the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The plea of good intentions is not one that can be allowed to have much weight in passing historical judgment upon a… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The good citizen will demand liberty for himself, and as a matter of pride he will see to it that others receive… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There are two things that I want you to make up your minds to: first, that you are going to have a… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It was a pleasure to deal with a man of high ideals, who scorned everything mean and base, and who possessed those… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The worst lesson that can be taught to a man is to rely upon others and to whine over his sufferings — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A small politician, of low capacity and mean surroundings, proud to act as the servile tool of men worse than himself but… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I have already lived and enjoyed as much life as any nine other men I have known. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln - the spirit incarnate of those who won victory in the Civil War - was the true representative of this… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To borrow a simile from the football field, we believe that men must play fair, but that there must be no shirking,… — 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
