1,051 Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt

The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the state because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of government.

The plea of good intentions is not one that can be allowed to have much weight in passing historical judgment upon a man whose wrong-headedness and distorted way of looking at things produced, or helped to produce, such incalculable evil; there is a wide political applicability in the remark attributed to a famous Texan, to the effect that he might, in the end, pardon a man who shot him on purpose, but that he would surely never forgive one who did so accidentally.

It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena...

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

The modern naturalist must realize that in some of its branches his profession, while more than ever a science, has also become an art.

It is character that counts in a nation as in a man.

Yes, Haven, most of us enjoy preaching, and Ive got such a bully pulpit!

The sons of all of us will pay in the future if we of the present do not do justice in the present.

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.