Any political movement directed against any body of our fellow-citizens because of their religious creed is a grave offense against American principles… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We can no more and no less afford to condone evil in the man of capital than evil in the man of… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Although not a very old man, I have yet lived a great deal in my life, and I have known sorrow too… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If we put corrupt men in public office and sneeringly acquiesce in their corruptions, then we are wrong ourselves. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Weasel words from mollycoddles will never do when the day demands prophetic clarity from greathearts. Manly men must emerge for this hour… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena... — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred with dust and sweat; who strives… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It's not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Every man among us is more fit to meet the duties and responsibilities of citizenship because of the perils over which, in… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Ruin looks us in the face if we judge a man by his position instead of judging him by his conduct in… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We must remember not to judge any public servant by any one act, and especially should we beware of attacking the men… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The woman has the right to be emancipated from the position of a drudge or a toy. She is entitled to a… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Every man, who parrots the cry of ‘stand by the President’ without adding the proviso ‘so far as he serves the Republic’… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No man who is not willing to bear arms and to fight for his rights can give a good reason why he… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is of little use for us to pay lip-loyalty to the mighty men of the past unless we sincerely endeavor to… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Rarely has any people enjoyed greater prosperity than we are now enjoying. For this we render heartfelt and solemn thanks to the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything. Do not be afraid to make mistakes providing… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Everything is un-American that tends either to government by a plutocracy or government by a mob. To divide along the lines of… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work is as valuable… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It [the Civil War] was a heroic struggle; and, as is inevitable with all such struggles, it had also a dark and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To sit home, read one's favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The world wants the kind of men who do not shrink from temporary defeats in life; but come again and wrestle triumph… — 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