The function of our Government is to insure to all its citizens, now and hereafter, their rights to life, liberty, and the… — 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
The stream will not permanently rise higher than the main source; and the main source of national power and national greatness is… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A party should not contain utterly incongruous elements, radically divided on the real issues, and acting together only on false and dead… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We stand for a living wage. Wages are subnormal if they fail to provide a living for those who devote their time… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
These international bankers and Rockefeller Standard Oil interests control the majority of newspapers and the columns of these papers to club into… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is a bad thing for a nation to raise and to admire a false standard of success; and there can be… — 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
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
