"The sons of all of us will..." - Quote by Theodore Roosevelt
The sons of all of us will pay in the future if we of the present do not do justice in the present.
More by Theodore Roosevelt
“To borrow a simile from the football field, we believe that men must play fair, but that there must be no shirking, and that the success can only come to the player who hits the line hard.”
“It either is or ought to be evident to everyone that business has to prosper before anyone can get any benefit from it.”
“If a strong man has not in him the lift toward lofty things, his strength makes him only a curse to himself and his neighbor.”
More on Justice
“Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.”
“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.”
“One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.”
More on Future
“This year I am choosing to live beyond my wildest dreams. I wonder where they'll take me.”
“If you don't heal the wounds of your childhood, you bleed into the future.”
“When we dream about those who are long since forgotten or dead, it is a sign that we have undergone a radical transformation and that the ground on which we live has been completely dug up: then the dead rise up, and our antiquity becomes modernity.”