There should be relentless exposure of and attack upon every evil practice, whether in politics, in business, or in social life. I… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
At the risk of repetition let me say again that my plea is not for immunity to, but for the most unsparing… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There is no good reason why we should fear the future, but there is every reason why we should face it seriously,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If there is one tendency of the day which more than any other is unhealthy and undesirable, it is the tendency to… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is not only highly desirable but necessary that there should be legislation which shall carefully shield the interests of wage-workers, and… — 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
I believe that the officers, and, especially, the directors, of corporations should be held personally responsible when any corporation breaks the law. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Again, it was proposed that we should go up the mountains and make our camps there.” — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is by no means necessary that a great nation should always stand at the heroic level. But no nation has the… — 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