Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

What I am to be, I am becoming.

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Cowardice in a race, as in an individual, is the unpardonable sin.

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It is not what we have that will make us a great nation; it is the way in which we use it.

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Conservation is a great moral issue, for it involves the patriotic duty of insuring the safety and continuance of the nation.

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Perhaps there is no more important component of character than steadfast resolution.

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The poorest way to face life is to face it with a sneer.

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I wish very much that the wrong people could be prevented entirely from breeding

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Power always brings with it responsibility.

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Hardness of heart is a dreadful quality, but it is doubtful whether in the long run it works more damage than softness of head.

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The modern naturalist must realize that in some of its branches his profession, while more than ever a science, has also become an art.

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I am far from underestimating the importance of dividends, but I rank dividends below human character.

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The fool who has not sense to discriminate between what is good and what is bad is well nigh as dangerous as the man who does discriminate and yet chooses the bad.

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The great corporations which we have grown to speak of rather loosely as trusts are the creatures of the State, and the State not only has the right to control them, but it is duty bound to control them wherever the need of such control is shown.

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The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others.

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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.

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I have already lived and enjoyed as much life as any nine other men I have known.

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It is always better to be an original than an imitation.

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Every man among us is more fit to meet the duties and responsibilities of citizenship because of the perils over which, in the past, the nation has triumphed; because of the blood and sweat and tears, the labor and the anguish, through which, in the days that have gone, our forefathers moved on to triumph.

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...to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.

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We of an older generation can get along with what we have, though with growing hardship; but in your full manhood and womanhood you will want what nature once so bountifully supplied and man so thoughtlessly destroyed; and because of that want you will reproach us, not for what we have used, but for what we have wasted...So any nation which in its youth lives only for the day, reaps without sowing, and consumes without husbanding, must expect the penalty of the prodigal whose labor could with difficulty find him the bare means of life.

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