Quotes By Theodore Roosevelt

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.

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

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.

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

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

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

Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.

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

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

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

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.