1,051 Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt

The American people are slow to wrath, but when their wrath is once kindled it burns like a consuming flame.

The one being abhorrent to the powers above the earth and under them is the hyphenated American

We do not admire a man of timid peace.

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

Of all the officers of the Government, those of the Department of Justice should be kept most free from any suspicion of improper action on partisan or factional grounds, so that there shall be gradually a growth, even though a slow growth, in the knowledge that the Federal courts and the representatives of the Federal Department of Justice insist on meting out even-handed justice to all.

Everything is un-American that tends either to government by a plutocracy or government by a mob. To divide along the lines of section or caste or creed is un-American. All privileges based on wealth, and all enmity to honest men merely because they are wealthy, are un-American-both of them equally so. The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

At sometime in our lives a devil dwells within us, causes heartbreaks, confusion and troubles, then dies.

I wish very much that the wrong people could be prevented entirely from breeding

There are those who believe that a new modernity demands a new morality. What they fail to consider is the harsh reality that there is no such thing as a new morality. There is only one morality . All else is immorality.