Quotes By Theodore Roosevelt

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

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.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

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

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

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

It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer "Present" or "Not guilty."

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

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

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

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.