It is well indeed for out land that we of this generation have learned to think nationally. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“The nation behaves well if it treats its natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In this world the one thing supremely worth having is the opportunity to do well and worthily a piece of work of… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The fool who has not sense to discriminate between what is good and what is bad is well nigh as dangerous as… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from us, and that true homage comes from… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is of far more important that a man shall play something himself, even if he plays it badly, than that he… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The duties are even more important than the rights; and in the long run I think that the reward is ampler and… — 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 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
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 foreign affairs we must make up our minds that whether we wish it or not, we are a great people and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If we are to be really great people, we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world.… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is both foolish and wicked to teach the average man who is not well off that some wrong or injustice has… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficultyI have never in my life envied… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There is a delight in the hardy life of the open. There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of… — 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
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
The true Christians are the true citizens, lofty of purpose, resolute in endeavor, ready for a hero's deeds, but never looking down… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if… — 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
If there ever was a pursuit which stultified itself by its very conditions, it is the pursuit of pleasure as the all-sufficing… — 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
The lives of truest heroism are those in which there are no great deeds to look back upon. It is the little… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We cannot afford merely to sit down and deplore the evils of city life as inevitable, when cities are constantly growing, both… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Those who oppose all reform will do well to remember that ruin in its worst form is inevitable if our national life… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is time for us now as a nation to exercise the same reasonable foresight in dealing with our great natural resources… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Lincoln-sad, patient, kindly Lincoln, who after bearing upon his weary shoulders for four years a greater burden than that borne by any… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Nothing should be permitted to stand in the way of the preservation of the forests, and it is criminal to permit individuals… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In foreign affairs we must make up our minds that, whether we wish it or not, we are a great people and… — 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
