Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It may be that at some time in the dim future of the race the need for war will vanish: but that… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We have become great because of the lavish use of our resources ... But the time has come to inquire seriously what… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Now, it is very necessary that we should not flinch from seeing what is vile and debasing. There is filth on the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No man can be a good citizen unless he has a wage more than sufficient to cover the bare cost of living,… — 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
There should be at least ten times the number of rifles in the country as there are now. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There is a point, of course, where a man must take the isolated peak and break with all his associates for clear… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
On the whole, we think that the greatest victories are yet to be won, the greatest deeds yet to be done, and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We want the active and zealous help of every man far-sighted enough to realize the importance from the standpoint of the nation's… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There are dreadful moments when death comes very near those we love, even if for the time being it passes by. But… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No ordinary work done by a man is either as hard or as responsible as the work of a woman who is… — 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
There are two things that I want you to make up your minds to: first, that you are going to have a… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In a moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Every man among us is more fit to meet the duties and responsibilities of citizenship because of the perils over which, in… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is of little use for us to pay lip-loyalty to the mighty men of the past unless we sincerely endeavor to… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There comes a time in the life of a nation, as in the life of an individual, when it must face great… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Every man owes a part of his time and money to the business or industry in which he is engaged. No man… — 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
It pays no matter what comes after it, to try and do things, to accomplish things in this life and not merely… — 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
