People Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt

The American people abhor a vacuum.

— Theodore Roosevelt

The object of government is the welfare of the people.

— Theodore Roosevelt

To hell with the Constitution when people want coal!

— Theodore Roosevelt

I wish very much that the wrong people could be prevented entirely from breeding

— Theodore Roosevelt

I am simply unable to understand the value placed by so many people upon great wealth.

— Theodore Roosevelt

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

— Theodore Roosevelt

To exist as a nation, to prosper as a state, and to live as a people, we must have trees.

— Theodore Roosevelt

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

— Theodore Roosevelt

No people ever yet benefited by riches if their prosperity corrupted their virtue.

— Theodore Roosevelt

The American people are slow to wrath, but when their wrath is once kindled it burns like a consuming flame.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Free speech exercised both individually and through a free press, is a necessity in any country where people are themselves free.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Abraham Lincoln - the spirit incarnate of those who won victory in the Civil War - was the true representative of this…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Among the wise and high-minded people who in self-respecting and genuine fashion strive earnestly for peace, there are the foolish fanatics always…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends…

— Theodore Roosevelt

A really great people, proud and high spirited, would face all the disasters of war rather than purchase that base prosperity which…

— Theodore Roosevelt

No people on earth have more cause to be thankful than ours, and this is said reverently, in no spirit of boastfulness…

— Theodore Roosevelt

There is no reason why people should not call themselves Cubists, or Octagonists, or Parallelopipedonists, orKnights oftheIsoscelesTriangle, or Brothers of the Cosine,…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

— Theodore Roosevelt

There comes a time in the life of a nation, as in the life of an individual, when it must face great…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves;…

— Theodore Roosevelt

In foreign affairs we must make up our minds that, whether we wish it or not, we are a great people and…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this…

— Theodore Roosevelt

In order to succeed we need leaders of inspired idealism, leaders to whom are granted great visions, who dream greatly and strive…

— Theodore Roosevelt

There can be nothing in the world more beautiful than the Yosemite, the groves of the giant sequoias and redwoods, the Canyon…

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

I believe that this Republic will endure for many centuries. If so there will doubtless be among its Presidents Protestants and Catholics,…

— Theodore Roosevelt

One of the fundamental necessities in a representative government such as ours is to make certain that the men to whom the…

— Theodore Roosevelt

But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American and nothing but an American. If he tries to…

— Theodore Roosevelt

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

— Theodore Roosevelt

It is only the warlike power of a civilized people that can give peace to the world.

— Theodore Roosevelt

A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless.

— Theodore Roosevelt

90% of the work in this country is done by people who don't feel good".

— Theodore Roosevelt

The mass of the American people are most emphatically not in the deplorable condition of which you speak.

— Theodore Roosevelt

The Constitution was made for the people and not the people for the Constitution.

— Theodore Roosevelt

The object of government is the welfare of the people. The material progress and prosperity of a nation are desirable chiefly so…

— Theodore Roosevelt

I have now run up against an ugly snag, the Sunday Excise Law. It is altogether too strict, but I have no…

— Theodore Roosevelt

If we are to be really great people, we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world.…

— Theodore Roosevelt

We have room but for one Language here and that is the English Language, for we intend to see that the crucible…

— Theodore Roosevelt

We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when any one engaged in…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Personally I have never been able to understand why the head of a big business, whether it be the Nation, the State…

— Theodore Roosevelt