Silent strength is the quality of all good men and most mummies. — 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 just war is in the long run far better for a man's soul than the most prosperous peace — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I dream of men who take the next step instead of worrying about the next thousand steps. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
What counts in a man or in a nation is not what the man or the nation can do, but what he… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We want men who will fix their eyes on the stars, but who will not forget that their feet must walk on… — 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
The man who does not think it was America's duty to fight for her own sake in view of the infamous conduct… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We must diligently strive to make our young men decent, God-fearing, law-abiding, honor-loving, justice-doing and also fearless and strong. — 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
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 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
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
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
We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will,… — 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
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
When the time of danger comes, all Americans, whatever their social standing, whatever their creed, whatever the training they have received, no… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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
There is a point, of course, where a man must take the isolated peak and break with all his associates for clear… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the… — 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
If an American is to amount to anything he must rely upon himself, and not upon the State; he must take pride… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If there ever was a pursuit which stultified itself by its very conditions, it is the pursuit of pleasure as the all-sufficing… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
At the risk of repetition let me say again that my plea is not for immunity to, but for the most unsparing… — 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
We wish to control big business so as to secure among other things good wages for the wage-workers and reasonable prices for… — 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
“Most of the men had simple souls. They could relate facts, but they said very little about what they dimly felt.” — 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
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
What such a man needs is not courage but nerve control, cool headedness. This he can get only by practice. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
What a man does for himself, dies with him. What a man does for his community lives long after he's gone. — 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
To every man who faces life with real desire to do his part in everything, I appeal for a study of the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Avoid the base hypocrisy of condemning in one man what you pass over in silence when committed by another. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Unless the man is master of his soul all other kinds of mastery amount to little. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community. — 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
There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share
Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share
There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. To put an end to it will be neither a short… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share
If elected, I shall see to it that every man has a square deal, no less and no more. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share