Quotes from Theodore Roosevelt

Each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune.

Under government ownership corruption can flourish just as rankly as under private ownership.

The President and the Congress are all very well in their way. They can say what they think they think, but it rests with the Supreme Court to decide what they have really thought.

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.

With great victory comes great sacrifice.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

Comparison is the thief of joy.

The greatest historian should also be a great moralist. It is no proof of impartiality to treat wickedness and goodness on the same level.

All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune-make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.

In popular government results worth while can only be achieved by men who combine worthy ideals with practical good sense.

Materially we must strive to secure a broader economic opportunity for all men, so that each shall have a better chance to show the stuff of which he is made.

The country's honor must be upheld at home and abroad.

More and more, as it becomes necessary to preserve the game, let us hope that the camera will largely supplant the rifle.

In a civilized and cultivated country, wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

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

There is nothing brilliant or outstanding in my record, except perhaps this one thing. I do the things I believe ought to be done. And when I make up my mind to do a thing, I act.

Then get busy and find out how to do it.

I do. That is character!

In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.

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

Power always brings with it responsibility.

It is only the warlike power of a civilized people that can give peace to the world.

When liberty becomes license, some form of one-man power is not far distant.