To have acted otherwise ... would have been the betrayal of the interests of the United States. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We have room for but one loyalty, loyalty to the United States. — 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 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
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
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
I ask of each Mason, of each member, of each brother, that he shall remember ever that there is upon him a peculiar obligation to show himself in every respect a good citizen; for after all, the way he can best do his duty by the ancient order to which he belongs is by reflecting credit upon that order by… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share
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
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 true friend of property, the true conservative, is he who insists that property shall be the servant and not the master of the commonwealth; who insists that the creature of man’s making shall be the servant and not the master of the man who made it. The citizens of the United States must effectively control the mighty commercial forces… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share
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
![“It [the Civil War] was a heroic struggle; and, as is inevitable with all such struggles, it had also a dark and terrible side. Very much was done of good, and much also of evil; and, as was inevitable in such a period of revolution, often the same man did both good and evil. For our great good…” quote by Theodore Roosevelt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5ef/theodore-roosevelt-218_accomplished_it-the-civil-war-was-a-heroic-struggle-a_1292459.jpg)
