World Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt

The world wants the kind of men who do not shrink from temporary defeats in life; but come again and wrestle triumph…

— Theodore Roosevelt

I wish that all Americans would realize that American politics is world politics.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords.

— Theodore Roosevelt

The extermination of the buffalo has been a veritable tragedy of the animal world.

— Theodore Roosevelt

It is only the warlike power of a civilized people that can give peace to the world.

— Theodore Roosevelt

In the Grand Canyon, Arizona has a natural wonder which is in kind absolutely unparalleled throughout the rest of the world.

— Theodore Roosevelt

I do not believe that any man can adequately appreciate the world of to-day unless he has some knowledge of -- a…

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

If we seek merely swollen, slothful ease and ignoble peace, if we shrink from the hard contests where men must win at…

— Theodore Roosevelt

It may be that at some time in the dim future of the race the need for war will vanish: but that…

— Theodore Roosevelt

In this world the one thing supremely worth having is the opportunity to do well and worthily a piece of work of…

— Theodore Roosevelt

We here in America, hold in our hands the hope of the world, the fate of the coming years; and shame and…

— Theodore Roosevelt

There comes a time in the life of a nation, as in the life of an individual, when it must face great…

— Theodore Roosevelt

If we are to be really great people, we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world.…

— Theodore Roosevelt

In foreign affairs we must make up our minds that, whether we wish it or not, we are a great people and…

— Theodore Roosevelt

In the Grand Canyon, Arizona has a natural wonder which is in kind absolutely unparalleled throughout the rest of the world. I…

— Theodore Roosevelt

There can be nothing in the world more beautiful than the Yosemite, the groves of the giant sequoias and redwoods, the Canyon…

— Theodore Roosevelt

A finer body of men has never been gathered by any nation than the men who have done the work of building…

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

The great body of our citizens shoot less as times goes on. We should encourage rifle practice among schoolboys, and indeed among…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Is America a weakling, to shrink from the work of the great world powers? No! The young giant of the West stands…

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficultyI have never in my life envied…

— Theodore Roosevelt

We sincerely and earnestly believe in peace; but if peace and justice conflict, we scorn the man who would not stand for…

— Theodore Roosevelt

There are good men and bad men of all nationalities, creeds and colors; and if this world of ours is ever to…

— Theodore Roosevelt

From reading of the people I admired - ranging from the soldiers of Valley Forge and Morgan's riflemen to my Southern forefathers…

— Theodore Roosevelt

... the Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war, and the failure to act against Turkey is to condone it…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the…

— Theodore Roosevelt

In foreign affairs we must make up our minds that whether we wish it or not, we are a great people and…

— Theodore Roosevelt

And it is through strife and the readiness for strife that a man or a nation must win greatness. So, let the…

— Theodore Roosevelt

If, in any individual, university training produces a taste for refined idleness, a distaste for sustained effort, a barren intellectual arrogance, or…

— Theodore Roosevelt

In doing your work in the great world, it is a safe plan to follow a rule I once heard on the…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Those who advocate total lack of regulation, those who advocate lawlessness in the business world, themselves give the strongest impulse to what…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The United States does not have a choice as to whether or not is will or will not play a great part…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The man who really counts in the world is the doer, not the mere critic -- the man who actually does the…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Every expansion of civilization makes for peace. In other words, every expansion of a great civilized power means a victory for law,…

— Theodore Roosevelt

When she (my mother) passed away, I kind of understood the commitment that she made to make sure that I could stay…

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages, though it is apt to be also the most terrible…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The very reason why we object to state ownership, that it puts a stop to individual initiative and to the healthy development…

— Theodore Roosevelt