President Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt

The worst of all fears is the fear of living

— Theodore Roosevelt

While President, I have been President - emphatically.

— Theodore Roosevelt

No President has ever enjoyed himself as much as I?

— Theodore Roosevelt

I never keep boys waiting. It's a hard trial for a boy to wait.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Oh, if only I could be President and Congress, too, just for ten minutes.

— Theodore Roosevelt

No other President ever enjoyed the Presidency as I did.

— Theodore Roosevelt

I have had a great time as president.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Never, never, you must never either of you remind a man at work on a political job that he may be President.

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

We will send ships and Marines as soon as possible for the protection of American life and property.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Freedom is not a gift which can be enjoyed save by those shown themselves worthy of it.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on…

— 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

I would a great deal rather be anything, say professor of history, than vice president.

— Theodore Roosevelt

No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community.

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

A President has a great chance; his position is almost that of a king and a prime minister rolled into one. Once…

— Theodore Roosevelt

To announce there must be no criticism of the president or that we are to stand with the president, right or wrong,…

— Theodore Roosevelt

To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its…

— Theodore Roosevelt

This country has nothing to fear from the crooked man who fails. We put him in jail. It is the crooked man…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Alone of human beings the good and wise mother stands on a plane of equal honor with the bravest soldier; for she…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“...the more I see the better satisfied I am that I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge…

— Theodore Roosevelt

To borrow a simile from the football field, we believe that men must play fair, but that there must be no shirking,…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The president is that invisible force that makes a school of fish suddenly change direction, so that everyone 'ohhs' and 'ahhs' at…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save…

— 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

In the history of mankind many republics have risen, have flourished for a less or greater time, and then have fallen because…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Our loyalty is due entirely to the United States. It is due to the President only and exactly to the degree in…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Every man, who parrots the cry of ‘stand by the President’ without adding the proviso ‘so far as he serves the Republic’…

— Theodore Roosevelt

To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or…

— Theodore Roosevelt

I have always said I would not have been President had it not been for my experience in North Dakota.

— Theodore Roosevelt

A President has a great chance; his position is almost that of a king and a prime minister rolled into one.

— Theodore Roosevelt

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

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

'Liar' is just as ugly a word as 'thief,' because it implies the presence of just as ugly a sin in one…

— Theodore Roosevelt