All contributions by corporations to any political committee or for any political purpose should be forbidden by law — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Let individuals contribute as they desire; but let us prohibit in effective fashion all corporations from making contributions for any political purpose,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Never, never, you must never either of you remind a man at work on a political job that he may be President. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I believe in a graduated income tax on big fortunes, and in . . . a graduated inheritance tax on big fortunes,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Any political movement directed against any body of our fellow-citizens because of their religious creed is a grave offense against American principles… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Wide differences of opinion in matters of religious, political, and social belief must exist if conscience and intellect alike are not to… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The Constitution guarantees protection to property, and we must make that promise good. But it does not give the right of suffrage… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The bosses of the Democratic party and the bosses of the Republican party alike have a closer grip than ever before on… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. To put an end to it will be neither… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If I were a factory employee, a workman on the railroads or a wage-earner of any sort, I would undoubtedly join the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The plea of good intentions is not one that can be allowed to have much weight in passing historical judgment upon a… — 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
A party should not contain utterly incongruous elements, radically divided on the real issues, and acting together only on false and dead… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The effort to make financial or political profit out of the destruction of character can only result in public calamity. Gross and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Our government, National and State, must be freed from the sinister influence or control of special interests. Exactly as the special interests… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Freemasonry must stand upon the Rock of Truth, religion, political, social, and economic. Nothing is so worthy of its care as freedom… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The true friend of property, the true conservative, is he who insists that property shall be the servant and not the master… — 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
