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
Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Now, it is very necessary that we should not flinch from seeing what is vile and debasing. There is filth on the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There can be nothing in the world more beautiful than the Yosemite, the groves of the giant sequoias and redwoods, the Canyon… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Of all the officers of the Government, those of the Department of Justice should be kept most free from any suspicion of… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages, though it is apt to be also the most terrible… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The absence of effective State, and, especially, national, restraint upon unfair money-getting has tended to create a small class of enormously wealthy… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The great body of our citizens shoot less as times goes on. We should encourage rifle practice among schoolboys, and indeed among… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There should be at least ten times the number of rifles in the country as there are now. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I am a man who believes with all fervor and intensity in moderate progress. Too often men who believe in moderation believe… — 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
There is no reason why people should not call themselves Cubists, or Octagonists, or Parallelopipedonists, orKnights oftheIsoscelesTriangle, or Brothers of the Cosine,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The fortunes amassed through corporate organization are now so large, and vest such power in those that wield them, as to make… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A grove of giant redwood or sequoias should be kept just as we keep a great and beautiful cathedral. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Do nothing to mar its grandeur ... keep it for your children, your children's children, and all who come after you, as… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
One of the fundamental necessities in a representative government such as ours is to make certain that the men to whom the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The good citizen will demand liberty for himself, and as a matter of pride he will see to it that others receive… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We must remember not to judge any public servant by any one act, and especially should we beware of attacking the men… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No man who is not willing to bear arms and to fight for his rights can give a good reason why he… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work is as valuable… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Personally I have never been able to understand why the head of a big business, whether it be the Nation, the State… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The need for collecting large campaign funds would vanish if Congress provided an appropriation for the proper and legitimate expenses of each… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The weakling and the coward cannot be saved by honesty alone; but without honesty the brave and able man is merely a… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To the second end, we hold that minimum wage commissions should be established in the Nation and in each State to inquire… — 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
