Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt

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.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldnt sit for a month.

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

A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.

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

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

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

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

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

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

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

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”

“Comparison is the thief of joy.”

“The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books”