Quotes from Theodore Roosevelt

No triumph of peace is quite so great as the supreme triumphs of war.

There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a Democrat like myself must admit this.

I am rather more apt to read old books than new ones.

The foes from whom we pray to be delivered are our own passions, appetites, and follies; and against these there is always need that we should war.

The sons of all of us will pay in the future if we of the present do not do justice in the present.

No triumph of peace can equal the armed triumph of war.

Councils of War never fight.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

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

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

The six great gifts of an Irish girl are beauty, soft voice, sweet speech, wisdom, needlework, and chastity.

Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.

A good shot must necessarily be a good man since the essence of good marksmanship is self-control and self-control is the essential quality of a good man.

The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything. Do not be afraid to make mistakes providing you do not make the same one twice.

No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community.

The worst lesson that can be taught to a man is to rely upon others and to whine over his sufferings

It tires me to talk to rich men. You expect a man of millions, the head of a great industry, to be a man worthhearing; but as a rule they don't know anything outside their own business.

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

From its origin to the present hour, in all its vicissitudes, Masonry has been the steady unwearing friend of man.

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

Give a man a soccer ball, he plays for a moment. Teach a man to play soccer, he plays for a life time.

The man who holds that every human right is secondary to his profit must now give way to the advocate of human welfare.

It is necessary for the welfare of the nation that men's lives be based on the principles of the Bible. No man, educated or uneducated, can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.