"It is true of the Nation, as..." - Quote by Theodore Roosevelt

“I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.”

“Everything is un-American that tends either to government by a plutocracy or government by a mob. To divide along the lines of section or caste or creed is un-American. All privileges based on wealth, and all enmity to honest men merely because they are wealthy, are un-American-both of them equally so. The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.”

“The greatest privilege and greatest duty for any man is to be happily married, and no other form of success or service, for either man or woman, can be wisely accepted as a substitute or alternative”

“You are what you do repeatedly.”

“Put an end once and for all to this discussion of what a good person should be, and be one.”

“I will persist. I will always take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another.”

“The one without dreams is the one without wings.”

“Every sunset which I witness inspires me with the desire to go to a west as distant and as fair as that into which the Sun goes down. He appears to migrate westward daily and tempt us to follow him. He is the Great Western Pioneer whom the nations follow. We dream all night of those mountain ridges in the horizon, though they may be of vapor only, which were last gilded by his rays.”

“I dream of men who take the next step instead of worrying about the next thousand steps.”