Theodore Roosevelt
There comes a time in the life of a nation, as in the life of an individual, when it must face great responsibilities, whether it will or no. We have now reached that time. We cannot avoid facing the fact that we occupy a new place among the people of the world.Collection: Responsibility
We have room for but one loyalty, loyalty to the United States.Collection: Loyalty
Alike for the nation and the individual, the one indispensable requisite is character.Collection: Character
Every special interest is entitled to justice - full, fair, and complete... but not one is entitled to a vote in Congress, to a voice on the bench, or to representation in any public office.Collection: Voice
'Liar' is just as ugly a word as 'thief,' because it implies the presence of just as ugly a sin in one case as in the other. If a man lies under oath or procures the lie of another under oath, if he perjures himself or suborns perjury, he is guilty under the statute law.Collection: Liars
In foreign affairs we must make up our minds that whether we wish it or not, we are a great people and must play a great part in the world. It is not open to us to choose whether we will play that great part or not.Collection: Play
The extermination of the buffalo has been a veritable tragedy of the animal world.Collection: Animal
There must be no division by class hatred, whether this hatred be that of creed against creed, nationality against nationality, section against section, or men of one social or industrial condition against men of another social and industrial condition. We must ever judge each individual on his own conduct and merits, and not on his membership in any class, whether that class be based on theological, social, or industrial considerations.Collection: Men
I believe that the officers, and, especially, the directors, of corporations should be held personally responsible when any corporation breaks the law.Collection: Believe
I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.Collection: Way
I believe in corporations. They are indispensable instruments of our modern civilization. But I believe they should be so regulated that they shall act for the interests of the community as a whole.Collection: Believe
The joy of living is his who has the heart to demand it. Life is a great adventure, and I want to say to you, accept it in such a spirit.Collection: Heart
The best lesson that any people can learn is that there is no patent cure-all which will make the body politic perfect, and that any man who is able glibly to answer every question as to how to deal with the evils of the body politic is at best a foolish visionary and at worst an evil-minded quack.Collection: Men
We stand for a living wage. Wages are subnormal if they fail to provide a living for those who devote their time and energy to industrial occupations. The monetary equivalent of a living wage varies according to local conditions, but must include enough to secure the elements of a normal standard of living-a standard high enough to make morality possible, to provide for education and recreation, to care for immature members of the family, to maintain the family during periods of sickness, and to permit of reasonable saving for old age.Collection: Immature
I believe in a graduated income tax on big fortunes, and in . . . a graduated inheritance tax on big fortunes, . . . increasing rapidly in amount with the size of the estate.Collection: Believe
To permit every lawless capitalist, every law-defying corporation, to take any action, no matter how iniquitous, in the effort to secure an improper profit and to build up privilege, would be ruinous to the Republic and would mark the abandonment of the effort to secure in the industrial world the spirit of democratic fair dealing.Collection: Law
The Americans of other blood must remember that the man who in good faith and without reservations gives up another country for this must in return receive exactly the same rights, not merely legal, but social and spiritual, that other Americans proudly possess. We of the United States belong to a new and separate nationality. We are all Americans and nothing else, and each, without regard to his birthplace, creed, or national origin, is entitled to exactly the same rights as all other Americans.Collection: Spiritual
Malefactors of great wealth have arrogantly ignored the public welfare.Collection: Ignored
The worst thing I can do is nothing.Collection: Action
Conservation means development as much as it does protection. I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use the natural resources of our land; but I do not recognize the right to waste them, or to rob, by wasteful use, the generations that come after us.Collection: Nature
Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth.Collection: Political
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred with dust and sweat; who strives valiantly; who errs and may fall again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming.Collection: Fall
In a civilized and cultivated country wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen. the excellent people who protest against all hunting, and consider sportsmen as enemies of wild life, are ignorant of the fact that in reality the genuine sportsman is by all odds the most important factor in keeping the larger and more valuable wild creatures from total extermination.Collection: Country
We wish to control big business so as to secure among other things good wages for the wage-workers and reasonable prices for the consumers. Wherever in any business the prosperity of the business man is obtained by lowering the wages of his workmen and charging an excessive price to the consumers we wish to interfere and stop such practices. We will not submit to that kind of prosperity any more than we will submit to prosperity obtained by swindling investors or getting unfair advantages over business rivals.Collection: Men
There are rainy days in autumn and stormy days in winter when the rocking chair in front of the fire simply demands an accompanying book.Collection: Book
We cannot afford to differ on the question of honesty if we expect our republic permanently to endure. Honesty is not so much a credit as an absolute prerequisite to efficient service to the public. Unless a man is honest, we have no right to keep him in public life; it matters not how brilliant his capacity.Collection: Honesty
The establishment of the National Park Service is justified by considerations of good administration, of the value of natural beauty as a National asset, and of the effectiveness of outdoor life and recreation in the production of good citizenship.Collection: Effectiveness
In the Grand Canyon, Arizona has a natural wonder which is in kind absolutely unparalleled throughout the rest of the world. I want to ask you to keep this great wonder of nature as it now is. I hope you will not have a building of any kind, not a summer cottage, a hotel or anything else, to mar the wonderful grandeur, the sublimity, the great loneliness and beauty of the canyon. Leave it as it is. You cannot improve on it. The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it.Collection: Summer
Believe you can and you’re halfway there.Collection: Personal Growth
It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, if he wins, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.Collection: Motivational Bodybuilding
Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.Collection: Perseverance
No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.Collection: Inspiring
Complaining about a problem without posing a solution is called whining.Collection: Complaining
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell them, “Certainly I can!”. Then get busy and find out how to do it.Collection: Learning
Get action. Do things; be sane; don’t fritter away your time; create, act, take a place wherever you are and be somebody; get action.Collection: Action
The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books.Collection: Real
We can have no ‘50-50’ allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.Collection: Country
A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless.Collection: Country
It is an incalculable added pleasure to any one’s sum of happiness if he or she grows to know, even slightly and imperfectly, how to read and enjoy the wonder-book of nature.Collection: Book
I’m as strong as a bull moose and you can use me to the limit.Collection: Strong
There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100% Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else.Collection: Country
The country’s honor must be upheld at home and abroad.Collection: Country
A revolution is sometimes necessary, but if revolutions become habitual the country in which they take place is going down-hill.Collection: Country