Quotes from Theodore Roosevelt

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

Never trust a man who says he is only a little crooked, and that the crookedness is exercised in your interest.

If we put corrupt men in public office and sneeringly acquiesce in their corruptions, then we are wrong ourselves.

What such a man needs is not courage but nerve control, cool headedness. This he can get only by practice.

The longer I live the more I think of the quality of fortitude... men who fall, pick themselves up and stumble on, fall again, and are trying to get back up when they die.

Avoid the base hypocrisy of condemning in one man what you pass over in silence when committed by another.

What a man does for himself, dies with him. What a man does for his community lives long after he's gone.

If a man has a very decided character, has a strongly accentuated career, it is normally the case of course that he makes ardent friends and bitter enemies.

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

We must remember not to judge any public servant by any one act, and especially should we beware of attacking the men who are merely the occasions and not the cause of disaster.

The ordinary air fighter is an extraordinary man and the extraordinary air fighter stands as one in a million among his fellows.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena..who errs, who comes short again and again; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who spends himself in a worthy cause.

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

We must diligently strive to make our young men decent, God-fearing, law-abiding, honor-loving, justice-doing and also fearless and strong.

The great man is always the man of mighty effort.

The woman has the right to be emancipated from the position of a drudge or a toy. She is entitled to a full equality in rights with man.

If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base and sordid creature, no matter how successful.

To every man who faces life with real desire to do his part in everything, I appeal for a study of the Bible.

No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.

The mother is the one supreme asset of national life; she is more important by far than the successful statesman, or business man, or artist, or scientist.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

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.