Theodore Roosevelt Quotes.
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.
Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.
The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.
Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.
A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
Believe you can and you’re halfway there.
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
There is but one answer to terrorism and it is best delivered with a Winchester rifle.
A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.
The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.
I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!
For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.
These international bankers and Rockefeller Standard Oil interests control the majority of newspapers and the columns of these papers to club into submission or drive out of public office officials who refuse to do the bidding of the powerful corrupt cliques which compose the invisible government.
Knowing what’s right doesn’t mean much unless you do what’s right.
Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.
The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ’em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.
The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.
Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering.
It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
I am a part of everything that I have read.
Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.
Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.
No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.
Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‘Present’ or ‘Not guilty.’
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
With self-discipline most anything is possible.
The government is us; we are the government, you and I.
