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
Every special interest is entitled to justice - full, fair, and complete... but not one is entitled to a vote in Congress,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the state because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No nation can be really great unless it is great in peace, in industry, integrity, honesty. Skilled intelligence in civic affairs and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is imperative to exercise over big business a control and supervision which is unnecessary as regards small business. All business must… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Our government, National and State, must be freed from the sinister influence or control of special interests. Exactly as the special interests… — 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
