Alone of human beings the good and wise mother stands on a plane of equal honor with the bravest soldier; for she… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.” — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Among the wise and high-minded people who in self-respecting and genuine fashion strive earnestly for peace, there are the foolish fanatics always… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The good citizen will demand liberty for himself, and as a matter of pride he will see to it that others receive… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The six great gifts of an Irish girl are beauty, soft voice, sweet speech, wisdom, needlework, and chastity. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We can just as little afford to follow the doctrinaires of an extreme individualism as the doctrinaires of an extreme socialism. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
What counts in a man or in a nation is not what the man or the nation can do, but what he… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Much of the discussion about socialism and individualism is entirely pointless, because of failure to agree on terminology. — 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
We Americans have many grave problems to solve, many threatening evils to fight, and many deeds to do, if, as we hope… — 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
