Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

“Ours is a government of liberty by, through, and under the law.A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.”

“I don't go so far as to think that the only good Indians are dead Indians, but I believe nine out of ten are, and I shouldn't like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth.”

“It's not having been in the Dark House, but having left it that counts.”

“You cannot create prosperity by law. Sustained thrift, industry, application, intelligence, are the only things that ever do, or ever will, create prosperity. But you can very easily destroy prosperity by law.”

“Any man who tries to excite class hatred, sectional hate, hate of creeds, any kind of hatred in our community, though he may affect to do it in the interest of the class he is addressing, is in the long run with absolute certainly that class's own worst enemy.”

“The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.”

“It's not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of the deeds could have done better.”

“I keep my good health by having a very bad temper, kept under good control.”

“While my interest in natural history has added very little to my sum of achievement, it has added immeasurably to my sum of enjoyment in life.”

“Your ability needs responsibility to expose its possibilities. Do what you can with what you have where you are.”

“Show me a man who makes no mistakes, and I will show you a man who doesn't do things.”

“The chief factor in any man's success or failure must be his own character.”

“I have no business to feel downcast or querulous merely because when so much as been given me I have not had even more.”

“We wish peace, but we wish the peace of justice, the peace of righteousness. We wish it because we think it is right and not because we are afraid.”

“We sincerely and earnestly believe in peace; but if peace and justice conflict, we scorn the man who would not stand for justice though the whole world came in arms against him.”

“I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.”

“There can be no life without change, and to be afraid of what is different or unfamiliar is to be afraid of life.”

“Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground.”

“There are some timid souls that will never know victory nor defeat.”

“The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.”

“It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home.”

“An Airedale can do anything any other dog can do and then whip the other dog if he has to.”

“The government is us; WE are the government, you and I."- Theodore Roosevelt”

“No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us.”

“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.”