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
In the history of mankind many republics have risen, have flourished for a less or greater time, and then have fallen because… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves;… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln - the spirit incarnate of those who won victory in the Civil War - was the true representative of this… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when any one engaged in… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Rarely has any people enjoyed greater prosperity than we are now enjoying. For this we render heartfelt and solemn thanks to the… — 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
There comes a time in the life of a nation, as in the life of an individual, when it must face great… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A really great people, proud and high spirited, would face all the disasters of war rather than purchase that base prosperity which… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Personally I have never been able to understand why the head of a big business, whether it be the Nation, the State… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When great nations fear to expand, shrink from expansion, it is because their greatness is coming to an end. Are we, still… — 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
To exist as a nation, to prosper as a state, and to live as a people, we must have trees. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Every expansion of civilization makes for peace. In other words, every expansion of a great civilized power means a victory for law,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I have now run up against an ugly snag, the Sunday Excise Law. It is altogether too strict, but I have no… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I wish very much that the wrong people could be prevented entirely from breeding — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If we are to be really great people, we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world.… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We have room but for one Language here and that is the English Language, for we intend to see that the crucible… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless; forests which are so used… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Wild beasts and birds are by right not the property merely of the people today, but the property of the unborn generations,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is only the warlike power of a civilized people that can give peace to the world. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No people ever yet benefited by riches if their prosperity corrupted their virtue. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. — 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
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