The greatest privilege and greatest duty for any man is to be happily married, and no other form of success or service,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The highest form of success comes to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship or from bitter toil, and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The ordinary air fighter is an extraordinary man and the extraordinary air fighter stands as one in a million among his fellows. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The vice of envy is not only a dangerous, but a mean vice; for it is always a confession of inferiority. It… — 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
I do not dislike but I certainly have no especial respect or admiration for and no trust in, the typical big moneyed… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Leave it as it is. You can not improve on it. You can only mar it. The ages have been at work… — 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
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 despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but we despise no less the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A finer body of men has never been gathered by any nation than the men who have done the work of building… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Love of peace is common among weak, short-sighted, timid, and lazy persons; and on the other hand courage is found among many… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Willful sterility is, from the standpoint of the nation, from the standpoint of the human race, the one sin for which the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The weakling and the coward are out of place in a strong and free community. In a republic like ours the governing… — 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
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
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
No man can lead a public career really worth leading, no man can act with rugged independence in serious crises, nor strike… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Almost every man who has by his life-work added to the sum of human achievement of which the race is proud, of… — 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
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
The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the state because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
On the whole, we think that the greatest victories are yet to be won, the greatest deeds yet to be done, and… — 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
Lincoln-sad, patient, kindly Lincoln, who after bearing upon his weary shoulders for four years a greater burden than that borne by any… — 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
Compromise" is so often used in a bad sense that it is difficult to remember that properly it merely describes the process… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
My position as regards the monied interests can be put in a few words. In every civilized society property rights must be… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Do not get into a fight if you can possibly avoid it. If you get in, see it through. Don't hit if… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Criticism is necessary and useful; it is often indispensable; but it can never take the place of action, or be even 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
There is no patent recipe for getting good citizenship. You get it by applying the old, old rules of decent conduct, the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The Americans of other blood must remember that the man who in good faith and without reservations gives up another country for… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The liar is no whit better than the thief, and if his mendacity takes the form of slander he may be worse… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The great body of our citizens shoot less as times goes on. We should encourage rifle practice among schoolboys, and indeed among… — 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
Conservation and rural-life policies are really two sides of the same policy; and down at the bottom this policy rests upon the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There never has been devised, and there never will be devised, any law which will enable a man to succeed save by… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Is America a weakling, to shrink from the work of the great world powers? No! The young giant of the West stands… — 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
