I am simply unable to understand the value placed by so many people upon great wealth. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Every person who invests in well-selected real estate in a growing section of a prosperous community adopts the surest and safest method… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth. — 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
It either is or ought to be evident to everyone that business has to prosper before anyone can get any benefit from… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I hold it to be our duty to see that the wage-worker, the small producer, the ordinary consumer, shall get their fair… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Certain rich men, whose lives are evil and corrupt, are the representatives of predatory wealth accumulated by all forms of inequity, from… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Rarely has any people enjoyed greater prosperity than we are now enjoying. For this we render heartfelt and solemn thanks to the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Everything is un-American that tends either to government by a plutocracy or government by a mob. To divide along the lines of… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We wish to control big business so as to secure among other things good wages for the wage-workers and reasonable prices for… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the… — 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
Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
All privileges based on wealth, and all emnity to honest men merely because they are wealthy, are un-American. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
You cannot create prosperity by law. Sustained thrift, industry, application, intelligence, are the only things that ever do, or ever will, create… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The men of wealth who today are trying to prevent the regulation and control of their business in the interest of the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Malefactors of great wealth have arrogantly ignored the public welfare. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I believe in a graduated income tax on big fortunes, and in . . . a graduated inheritance tax on big fortunes,… — 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
