Quotes By Theodore Roosevelt

Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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