I do not believe that any man can adequately appreciate the world of to-day unless he has some knowledge of -- a… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is no limitation upon property rights or freedom of contract to require that when men receive from government the privilege of… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When I say I believe in a square deal i do not mean to give every man the best hand. If the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Don't hit at all if you can help it; don't hit a man if you can possibly avoid it; but if you… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There is need of a sound body, and even more need of a sound mind. But above mind and above body stands… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Silent strength is the quality of all good men and most mummies. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If I were a factory employee, a workman on the railroads or a wage-earner of any sort, I would undoubtedly join the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No man can do both effective and decent work in public life unless he is a practical politician on the one hand,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
From reading of the people I admired - ranging from the soldiers of Valley Forge and Morgan's riflemen to my Southern forefathers… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The men of wealth who today are trying to prevent the regulation and control of their business in the interest of the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
...short-sighted men who in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The mother is the one supreme asset of national life; she is more important by far than the successful statesman, or business… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I was a reasonably good student in college ... My chief interests were scientific. When I entered college, I was devoted to… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Such an experiment without actual conditions of war to support it is a foolish waste of time. . . . I once… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is imperative to exercise over big business a control and supervision which is unnecessary as regards small business. All business must… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We cannot afford to differ on the question of honesty if we expect our republic permanently to endure. Honesty is not so… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort; the man who never wrongs… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If there is one thing for which we stand in this country, it is for complete religious freedom, and it is an… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A churchless community, a community where men have abandoned and scoffed at or ignored their religious needs, is a community on the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We of an older generation can get along with what we have, though with growing hardship; but in your full manhood and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The party belongs to the millions of the rank and file. It does not belong to the handful of politicians who have… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities. — 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
