It may be that at some time in the dim future of the race the need for war will vanish: but that… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
And it is through strife and the readiness for strife that a man or a nation must win greatness. So, let the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In order to succeed we need leaders of inspired idealism, leaders to whom are granted great visions, who dream greatly and strive… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I always believe in going hard at everything, whether it is Latin or mathematics, boxing or football, but at the same time… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The absence of effective State, and, especially, national, restraint upon unfair money-getting has tended to create a small class of enormously wealthy… — 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
... looked at from the standpoint of the ultimate result, there was little real difference to the Indian whether the land was… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The need for collecting large campaign funds would vanish if Congress provided an appropriation for the proper and legitimate expenses of each… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A nation that still needs to distinguish between stealing an election, and stealing a new pair of shoes, is not completely civilized… — 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
Unjust war is to be abhorred; but woe to the nation that does not make ready to hold its own in time… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The corporation that shrinks from the light" would have anything to fear from government. About the welfare of such corporations we need… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should… — 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
The foes from whom we pray to be delivered are our own passions, appetites, and follies; and against these there is always… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In a crisis, the man worth his salt is the man who meets the needs of the situation in whatever way is… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The great corporations which we have grown to speak of rather loosely as trusts are the creatures of the State, and the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In other words, character is far more important than intellect to the race as to the individual. We need intellect, and there… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Your ability needs responsibility to expose its possibilities. Do what you can with what you have where you are. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The spirit of brotherhood recognizes of necessity both the need of self-help and also the need of helping others in the only… — 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
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
There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is by no means necessary that a great nation should always stand at the heroic level. But no nation has the… — 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
