I never keep boys waiting. It's a hard trial for a boy to wait. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Oh, if only I could be President and Congress, too, just for ten minutes. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Free speech exercised both individually and through a free press, is a necessity in any country where people are themselves free. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I would a great deal rather be anything, say professor of history, than vice president. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I don't think any President ever enjoyed himself more than I did. Moreover, I don't think any ex-President ever enjoyed himself more. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I have always said I would not have been President had it not been for my experience in North Dakota. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A healthy-minded boy should feel hearty contempt for the coward and even more hearty indignation for the boy who bullies girls or… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To borrow a simile from the football field, we believe that men must play fair, but that there must be no shirking,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“...the more I see the better satisfied I am that I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
'Liar' is just as ugly a word as 'thief,' because it implies the presence of just as ugly a sin in one… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A President has a great chance; his position is almost that of a king and a prime minister rolled into one. Once… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I must be wanting to be President. Every young man does. But I won't let myself think of it; I must not,… — 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… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
This country has nothing to fear from the crooked man who fails. We put him in jail. It is the crooked man… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The president is that invisible force that makes a school of fish suddenly change direction, so that everyone 'ohhs' and 'ahhs' at… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Every man, who parrots the cry of ‘stand by the President’ without adding the proviso ‘so far as he serves the Republic’… — 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
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 believe that this Republic will endure for many centuries. If so there will doubtless be among its Presidents Protestants and Catholics,… — 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… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A President has a great chance; his position is almost that of a king and a prime minister rolled into one. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Don't hit at all if you can help it; don't hit a man if you can possibly avoid it; but if you… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We will send ships and Marines as soon as possible for the protection of American life and property. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Freedom is not a gift which can be enjoyed save by those shown themselves worthy of it. — 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
To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To announce there must be no criticism of the president or that we are to stand with the president, right or wrong,… — 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
