One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words." — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If elected, I shall see to it that every man has a square deal, no less and no more. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is an incalculable added pleasure to any one's sum of happiness if he or she grows to know, even slightly and… — 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
The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take… — 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
I hold that in this country there must be complete severance of Church and State; that public moneys shall not be used… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most incapable Executive that ever filled the presidential chair...it would be difficult to imagine a man less fit to guide… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To discriminate against a thoroughly upright citizen because he belongs to some particular church, or because, like Abraham Lincoln, he has not… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Boxing, jiu-jitsu, scaling the Matterhorn... I did cardio before cardio was cool. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Every thinking man, when he thinks, realizes that the teachings of the Bible are so interwoven and intertwined with our whole civic… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I enter a most earnest plea that in our hurried and rather bustling life of today we do not lose the hold… — 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
