1,051 Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt

A powerful Navy we have always regarded as our proper and natural means of defense; and it has always been of defense that we have thought, never of aggression or of conquest. But who shall tell us now what sort of Navy to build? We shall take leave to be strong upon the seas, in the future as in the past; and there will be no thought of offense or provocation in that. Our ships are our natural bulwarks.

No man is above the law and no man below it.

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.

Conservation means development as much as it does protection.A man's usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals insofar as he can.

To my mind there is a peculiar fascination in hunting the mule-deer. By the time hunting season has arrived the buck is no longer the slinking beast of the thicket, but a bold and yet wary dweller in the uplands.

In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do: That is character!

No ordinary work done by a man is either as hard or as responsible as the work of a woman who is bringing up a family of small children.

But we hold with Lincoln that labor deserves higher consideration than capital. Therefore we hold that labor has a right to the means of life—that there must be a living wage.