Theodore Roosevelt Quotes, People Quotes, Office Quotes

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , People Quotes , Office Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Men Quotes , Safety Quotes

We here in America, hold in our hands the hope of the world, the fate of the coming years; and shame and disgrace will be ours if in our eyes the light of high resolve is dimmed, if we trail in the dust the golden hopes of men.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Hope Quotes , Eye Quotes

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Graduation Quotes , Senior Quotes

Honesty first; then courage; then brains - and all are indispensable.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Honesty Quotes

Let the watchwords of all our people be the old familiar watchwords of honesty, decency, fair-dealing, and commonsense."... "We must treat each man on his worth and merits as a man. We must see that each is given a square deal, because he is entitled to no more and should receive no less.""The welfare of each of us is dependent fundamentally upon the welfare of all of us.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Honesty Quotes , Men Quotes

If there is one thing for which we stand in this country, it is for complete religious freedom, and it is an emphatic negation of this right to cross-examine a man on his religion before being willing to support him for office.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Country Quotes , Religious Quotes

I don't think any President ever enjoyed himself more than I did. Moreover, I don't think any ex-President ever enjoyed himself more.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Thinking Quotes , President Quotes

I do not care a rap as to who gets credit for the work, provided the work is done.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Rap Quotes , Care Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Voice Quotes , Justice Quotes

Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Sports Quotes , Fighting Quotes

The beauty and charm of the wilderness are his for the asking, for the edges of the wilderness lie close beside the beaten roads of the present travel.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Lying Quotes , Asking Quotes

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Change Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Men Quotes , Doe Quotes

Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual; and neither a nation nor an individual can surrender conscience to another's keeping.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Peace Quotes , Surrender Quotes

When money comes in at the gate, sport flies out at the window.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Sports Quotes , Window Quotes

While the nation that has dared to be great, that has had the will and the power to change the destiny of the ages, in the end must die, yet no less surely the nation that has played the part of the weakling must also die; and whereas the nation that has done nothing leaves nothing behind it, the nation that has done a great work really continues, though in changed form, to live forevermore.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Destiny Quotes , Age Quotes

To hell with the Constitution when people want coal!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , People Quotes , Coal Quotes

I highly venerate the Masonic Institution, under the fullest persuasion that, when its principles are acknowledged and its laws and precepts obeyed, it comes nearest to the Christian religion, in its moral effects and influence, of any institution with which I am acquainted.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Christian Quotes , Law Quotes

It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone, but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Goal Quotes , May Quotes