All that the law can do is to shape things so that no injustice shall be done by one to the other,… — 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
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
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
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
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
It tires me to talk to rich men. You expect a man of millions, the head of a great industry, to be… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The fool who has not sense to discriminate between what is good and what is bad is well nigh as dangerous as… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The effort to make financial or political profit out of the destruction of character can only result in public calamity. Gross and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Some reformers may urge that in the ages distant future, patriotism, like the habit of monogamous marriage, will become a needless and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There should be relentless exposure of and attack upon every evil practice, whether in politics, in business, or in social life. I… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Any man who tries to excite class hatred, sectional hate, hate of creeds, any kind of hatred in our community, though he… — 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… — 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
I do not believe there ever was any life more attractive to a vigorous young fellow than life on a cattle ranch… — 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
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 holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public… — 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
A good shot must necessarily be a good man since the essence of good marksmanship is self-control and self-control is the essential… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is both foolish and wicked to teach the average man who is not well off that some wrong or injustice has… — 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
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
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
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
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
He [Lincoln] had mastered it {the Bible] absolutely...mastered it so that he became almost 'a man of one Book', who knew that… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Life brings sorrows and joys alike. It is what a man does with them - not what they do to him -… — 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 sincerely and earnestly believe in peace; but if peace and justice conflict, we scorn the man who would not stand for… — 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
War with evil; but show no spirit of malignity toward the man who may be responsible for the evil. Put it out… — 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
Character is far more important than intellect in making a man a good citizen or successful at his calling- meaning by character… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The wise and honorable and Christian thing to do is to treat each black man and each white man (or any person)… — 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
...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
Every man owes a part of his time and money to the business or industry in which he is engaged. No man… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I violate no secret when I say that one of the greatest values in Masonry is that it affords an opportunity for… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena..who errs, who comes short again and again; but who 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
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
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