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
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
We face the future with our past and our present as guarantors of our promises; and we are content to stand or… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Our loyalty is due entirely to the United States. It is due to the President only and exactly to the degree in… — 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
Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past. — 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
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
