Quotes
Quotes - Roosevelt
A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled to, and less than that no man shall have.
Peace, like charity, begins at home.
If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.
It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
He has been called a mediocre man; but this is unwarranted flattery. He was a politician of monumental littleness.
We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.
We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions--bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom and equality. Whoever seeks to set one nationality against another, seeks to degrade all nationalities.
Speak softly, and carry a big stick; you will go far.
I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart, and that is softness of head.
A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
The men and women who have the right ideals ... are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty.
In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard.
It is well indeed for out land that we of this generation have learned to think nationally.
I feel like a Bull Moose. - Theodore Roosevelt,
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft.
I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of strenuous life.
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
It is better to light 1 candle than to curse the darkness.
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country.
My hat is in the ring.
