Theodore Roosevelt Quotes And Sayings

Absence And Death Are The Same - Only That In Death There Is No Suffering.

The Most Practical Kind Of Politics Is The Politics Of Decency.

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.

A Typical Vice Of American Politics Is The Avoidance Of Saying Anything Real On Real Issues.

Every Reform Movement Has A Lunatic Fringe.

The Reactionary Is Always Willing To Take A Progressive Attitude On Any Issue That Is Dead.

Far And Away The Best Prize That Life Has To Offer Is The Chance To Work Hard At Work Worth Doing.

I Am Only An Average Man But, By George, I Work Harder At It Than The Average Man.

I Don't Pity Any Man Who Does Hard Work Worth Doing. I Admire Him. I Pity The Creature Who Does Not Work, At Whichever End Of The Social Scale He May Regard Himself As Being.

Obedience Of The Law Is Demanded; Not Asked As A Favor.

There Has Never Yet Been A Man In Our History Who Led A Life Of Ease Whose Name Is Worth Remembering.

Wars Are, Of Course, As A Rule To Be Avoided; But They Are Far Better Than Certain Kinds Of Peace.

When You Play, Play Hard; When You Work, Don't Play At All.

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.

It Is Essential That There Should Be Organization Of Labor. This Is An Era Of Organization. Capital Organizes And Therefore Labor Must Organize.

To Educate A Man In Mind And Not In Morals Is To Educate A Menace To Society.

No People Is Wholly Civilized Where A Distinction Is Drawn Between Stealing An Office And Stealing A Purse.

When They Call The Roll In The Senate, The Senators Do Not Know Whether To Answer 'Present' Or 'Not Guilty.'

It Is Difficult To Make Our Material Condition Better By The Best Law, But It Is Easy Enough To Ruin It By Bad Laws.

Leave It As It Is. The Ages Have Been At Work On It And Man Can Only Mar It.

No Great Intellectual Thing Was Ever Done By Great Effort.

Old Age Is Like Everything Else. To Make A Success Of It, You've Got To Start Young.

Don't Hit At All If It Is Honorably Possible To Avoid Hitting; But Never Hit Soft.

I Took The Canal Zone And Let Congress Debate; And While The Debate Goes On, The Canal Does Also.

Character, In The Long Run, Is The Decisive Factor In The Life Of An Individual And Of Nations Alike.

No Man Is Above The Law And No Man Is Below It: Nor Do We Ask Any Man's Permission When We Ask Him To Obey It.

No Man Is Justified In Doing Evil On The Ground Of Expedience.

Speak Softly And Carry A Big Stick; You Will Go Far.

Some Men Can Live Up To Their Loftiest Ideals Without Ever Going Higher Than A Basement.

The American People Abhor A Vacuum.

I Wish To Preach, Not The Doctrine Of Ignoble Ease, But The Doctrine Of The Strenuous Life.

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.