No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned. — 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
There should be at least ten times the number of rifles in the country as there are now. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We should not forget that it will be just as important to our descendants to be prosperous in their time as it… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The one characteristic more essential than any other is foresight... It should be the growing nation with a future which takes the… — 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
The foes from whom we pray to be delivered are our own passions, appetites, and follies; and against these there is always… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should… — 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
Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country. — 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
Unjust war is to be abhorred; but woe to the nation that does not make ready to hold its own in time… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In other words, character is far more important than intellect to the race as to the individual. We need intellect, and there… — 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
It is both foolish and wicked to teach the average man who is not well off that some wrong or injustice has… — 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
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
I believe in corporations. They are indispensable instruments of our modern civilization. But I believe they should be so regulated that they… — 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
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
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
In every community there are little knots of fantastic extremists who loudly proclaim that they are striving for righteousness, and who, in… — 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 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
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
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
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
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
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
I feel most emphatically that we should not turn into shingles a tree which was old when the first Egyptian conqueror penetrated… — 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
It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
All contributions by corporations to any political committee or for any political purpose should be forbidden by law — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I believe that there should be a very much heavier progressive tax on very large incomes, a tax which should increase in… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The greatest historian should also be a great moralist. It is no proof of impartiality to treat wickedness and goodness on the… — 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
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
No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share
There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share
Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share
There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. To put an end to it will be neither a short… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share
If elected, I shall see to it that every man has a square deal, no less and no more. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share
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