To have acted otherwise ... would have been the betrayal of the interests of the United States. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To exist as a nation, to prosper as a state, and to live as a people, we must have trees. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We have room for but one loyalty, loyalty to the United States. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Where a trust becomes a monopoly the state has an immediate right to interfere. — 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
Those who advocate total lack of regulation, those who advocate lawlessness in the business world, themselves give the strongest impulse to what… — 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
The United States does not have a choice as to whether or not is will or will not play a great part… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In the Western Hemisphere the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may force the United States, however reluctantly, in… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The great corporations which we have grown to speak of rather loosely as trusts are the creatures of the State, and the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
All constitutions, those of the States no less than that of the nation, are designed, and must be interpreted and administered so… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most incapable Executive that ever filled the presidential chair...it would be difficult to imagine a man less fit to guide… — 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
The supreme duty of the Nation is the conservation of human resources through an enlightened measure of social and industrial justice. We… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I ask of each Mason, of each member, of each brother, that he shall remember ever that there is upon him a… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To discriminate against a thoroughly upright citizen because he belongs to some particular church, or because, like Abraham Lincoln, he has not… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A man must first care for his own household before he can be of use to the state. But no matter how… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In speaking to you men of the greatest city of the West, men of the state which gave to the country Lincoln… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I hold that in this country there must be complete severance of Church and State; that public moneys shall not be used… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A healthy state can exist only when the men and women who make it up lead clean, vigorous, healthy lives; when the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We have a right to expect that the best trained, the best educated men on the Pacific slope, the Rocky Mountains, and… — 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
It [the Civil War] was a heroic struggle; and, as is inevitable with all such struggles, it had also a dark and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The very reason why we object to state ownership, that it puts a stop to individual initiative and to the healthy development… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The true friend of property, the true conservative, is he who insists that property shall be the servant and not the master… — 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
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
Our loyalty is due entirely to the United States. It is due to the President only and exactly to the degree in… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Any political movement directed against any body of our fellow-citizens because of their religious creed is a grave offense against American principles… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The general tendency towards an eight-hour working day has undoubtedly been healthful, and it is wise for the State to set a… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If an American is to amount to anything he must rely upon himself, and not upon the State; he must take pride… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The bosses of the Democratic party and the bosses of the Republican party alike have a closer grip than ever before on… — 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… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Because we are unqualifiedly and without reservation against any system of denominational schools, maintained by the adherents of any creed with the… — 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
Our country, we have faith to believe, is only at the beginning of its growth. Unless the forests of the United States… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In the history of mankind many republics have risen, have flourished for a less or greater time, and then have fallen because… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The Americans of other blood must remember that the man who in good faith and without reservations gives up another country for… — 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
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