I wish that all Americans would realize that American politics is world politics. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The world wants the kind of men who do not shrink from temporary defeats in life; but come again and wrestle triumph… — 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
In doing your work in the great world, it is a safe plan to follow a rule I once heard on the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In the Grand Canyon, Arizona has a natural wonder which is in kind absolutely unparalleled throughout the rest of the world. — 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 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
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
We here in America, hold in our hands the hope of the world, the fate of the coming years; and shame and… — 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
If we seek merely swollen, slothful ease and ignoble peace, if we shrink from the hard contests where men must win at… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
And it is through strife and the readiness for strife that a man or a nation must win greatness. So, let the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Every expansion of civilization makes for peace. In other words, every expansion of a great civilized power means a victory for law,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A finer body of men has never been gathered by any nation than the men who have done the work of building… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There can be nothing in the world more beautiful than the Yosemite, the groves of the giant sequoias and redwoods, the Canyon… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In the Grand Canyon, Arizona has a natural wonder which is in kind absolutely unparalleled throughout the rest of the world. I… — 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
To permit every lawless capitalist, every law-defying corporation, to take any action, no matter how iniquitous, in the effort to secure an… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When she (my mother) passed away, I kind of understood the commitment that she made to make sure that I could stay… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages, though it is apt to be also the most terrible… — 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 man who really counts in the world is the doer, not the mere critic -- the man who actually does the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
... the Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war, and the failure to act against Turkey is to condone it… — 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
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 are good men and bad men of all nationalities, creeds and colors; and if this world of ours is ever to… — 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
The extermination of the buffalo has been a veritable tragedy of the animal world. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is only the warlike power of a civilized people that can give peace to the world. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I do not believe that any man can adequately appreciate the world of to-day unless he has some knowledge of -- a… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Those who advocate total lack of regulation, those who advocate lawlessness in the business world, themselves give the strongest impulse to what… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If, in any individual, university training produces a taste for refined idleness, a distaste for sustained effort, a barren intellectual arrogance, or… — 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
Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
From reading of the people I admired - ranging from the soldiers of Valley Forge and Morgan's riflemen to my Southern forefathers… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We sincerely and earnestly believe in peace; but if peace and justice conflict, we scorn the man who would not stand for… — 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
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
The words of the Declaration of Independence, as given effect by Washington...are to be accepted as real, and not as empty phrases...that… — 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
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