Theodore Roosevelt
Make preparations in advance ... you never have trouble if you are prepared for it.Collection: Preparation
No man who is not willing to bear arms and to fight for his rights can give a good reason why he should be entitled to the privilege of living in a free community.Collection: Fighting
There is not one among us in whom a devil does not dwell; at some time, on some point, that devil masters each of us... It is not having been in the Dark House, but having left it, that counts.Collection: Dark
We have room in this country for but one flag, the Stars and Stripes!Collection: Country
We Americans have many grave problems to solve, many threatening evils to fight, and many deeds to do, if, as we hope and believe, we have the wisdom, the strength, and the courage and the virtue to do them. But we must face facts as they are. We must neither surrender ourselves to a foolish optimism, nor succumb to a timid and ignoble pessimism.Collection: Believe
Avoid the base hypocrisy of condemning in one man what you pass over in silence when committed by another.Collection: Men
I hold that in this country there must be complete severance of Church and State; that public moneys shall not be used for the purpose of advancing any particular creed; and therefore that the public schools shall be nonsectarian and no public moneys appropriated for sectarian schools.Collection: Country
There is nothing more distressing ... than the hard, scoffing spirit which treats the allegation of dishonesty in a public man as a cause for laughter. Such laughter is worse than the crackling of thorns under a pot, for it denotes not merely the vacant mind, but the heart in which high emotions have been choked before they could grow to fruition.Collection: Laughter
The leader works in the open and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.Collection: Leadership
Envy is as evil a thing as arrogance.Collection: Evil
At the risk of repetition let me say again that my plea is not for immunity to, but for the most unsparing exposure of, the politician who betrays his trust, of the big business man who makes or spends his fortune in illegitimate or corrupt ways. There should be a resolute effort to hunt every such man out of the position he has disgraced. Expose the crime, and hunt down the criminal; but remember that even in the case of crime, if it is attacked in sensational, lurid, and untruthful fashion, the attack may do more damage to the public mind than the crime itself.Collection: Fashion
An Airedale can do anything any other dog can do and then whip the other dog if he has to.Collection: Dog
There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains.Collection: Political
From the greatest to the smallest, happiness and usefulness are largely found in the same soul, and the joy of life is won in its deepest and truest sense only by those who have not shirked life's burdens.Collection: Happiness
Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from us, and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips, and shows itself in deeds.Collection: Thanksgiving
Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking.Collection: Power
A good shot must necessarily be a good man since the essence of good marksmanship is self-control and self-control is the essential quality of a good man.Collection: Men
Performance should be made square with promise.Collection: Squares
The American people are slow to wrath, but when their wrath is once kindled it burns like a consuming flame.Collection: Wrath
We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when any one engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.Collection: Business
One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words."Collection: Presidential
I believe that there should be a very much heavier progressive tax on very large incomes, a tax which should increase in a very marked fashion for the gigantic incomes.Collection: Fashion
In the history of mankind many republics have risen, have flourished for a less or greater time, and then have fallen because their citizens lost the power of governing themselves and thereby of governing their state; and in no way has this loss of power been so often and so clearly shown as in the tendency to turn the government into a government primarily for the benefit of one class instead of a government for the benefit of the people as a whole.Collection: Loss
I have often thought that unselfishness combined in one word more of the teachings of the Bible than any other in the language.Collection: Teaching
Almost every man who has by his life-work added to the sum of human achievement of which the race is proud, of which our people are proud, almost every such man has based his life-work largely upon the teachings of the BibleCollection: Teaching
Every expansion of civilization makes for peace. In other words, every expansion of a great civilized power means a victory for law, order, and righteousness. ...It is only the warlike power of a civilized people that can give peace to the world.Collection: Mean
Willful sterility is, from the standpoint of the nation, from the standpoint of the human race, the one sin for which the penalty is national death, race death; a sin for which there is no atonement. No man, no woman, can shirk the primary duties of life, whether for love of ease and pleasure, or for any other cause, and retain his or her self-respect.Collection: Love
We fight in honourable fashion for the good of mankind; fearless of the future, unheeding of our individual fates, with unflinching hearts and undimmed eyes; we stand at Armageddon, and we battle for the LordCollection: Fashion
The foes from whom we pray to be delivered are our own passions, appetites, and follies; and against these there is always need that we should war.Collection: War
It is only the warlike power of a civilized people that can give peace to the world.Collection: People
The woman has the right to be emancipated from the position of a drudge or a toy. She is entitled to a full equality in rights with man.Collection: Men
I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if they degenerate into the sole end of any one's existence. I don't want you to sacrifice standing well in your studies to any over-athleticism; and I need not tell you that character counts for a great deal more than either intellect or body in winning success in life. Athletic proficiency is a mighty good servant, and like so many other good servants, a mighty bad master.Collection: Soccer
Those who advocate total lack of regulation, those who advocate lawlessness in the business world, themselves give the strongest impulse to what I believe would be the deadening movement toward unadulterated state socialism.Collection: Believe
While President, I have been President - emphatically.Collection: President
Abraham Lincoln - the spirit incarnate of those who won victory in the Civil War - was the true representative of this people, not only for his own generation, but for all time, because he was a man among men.Collection: War
The dreams of golden glory in the future will not come true unless, high of heart and strong of hand, by our own mighty deeds we make them come true.Collection: Dream
The vice of envy is not only a dangerous, but a mean vice; for it is always a confession of inferiority. It may promote conduct which will be fruitful of wrong to others, and it must cause misery to the man who feels it.Collection: Mean
The mass of the American people are most emphatically not in the deplorable condition of which you speak.Collection: People
I have now run up against an ugly snag, the Sunday Excise Law. It is altogether too strict, but I have no honorable alternative save to enforce it and I am enforcing it, to the furious rage of the saloon keepers, and of many good people too; for which I am sorry.Collection: Running
Toward all other nations, large and small, our attitude must be one of cordial and sincere friendship. We must show not only in our words, but in our deeds, that we are earnestly desirous of securing their good will by acting toward them in a spirit of just and generous recognition of all their rights.Collection: Attitude
Every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may require it.Collection: Men
I cannot consent to take the position that the door of hope - the door of opportunity - is to be shut upon any man, no matter how worthy, purely upon the grounds of race or color. Such an attitude would, according to my convictions, be fundamentally wrong.Collection: Attitude
Give a man a soccer ball, he plays for a moment. Teach a man to play soccer, he plays for a life time.Collection: Soccer
Death is always, under all circumstances, a tragedy, for if it is not then it means that life has become one.Collection: Death
I always keep my weather eye on the opposition of my seventh house Moon to my first house Mars.Collection: Eye
I'm as strong as a bull moose and you can use me to the limit.Collection: Strong
Progress has brought us both unbounded opportunities and unbridled difficulties. Thus, the measure of our civilization will not be that we have done much, but what we have done with that much. I believe that the next half century will determine if we will advance the cause of Christian civilization or revert to the horrors of brutal paganism. The thought of modern industry in the hands of Christian charity is a dream worth dreaming. The thought of industry in the hands of paganism is a nightmare beyond imagining. The choice between the two is upon us.Collection: Christian
There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a Democrat like myself must admit this.Collection: War
Perhaps the most incapable Executive that ever filled the presidential chair...it would be difficult to imagine a man less fit to guide the state with honor and safety through the stormy times that marked the opening of the present century.Collection: Men