1,051 Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt

I have had a great time as president.

My hat's in the ring. The fight is on and I'm stripped to the buff.

Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot, but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.

This country has nothing to fear from the crooked man who fails. We put him in jail. It is the crooked man who succeeds who is a threat to this country.

Argument weak; speak loudly!

Much of the usefulness of any career must lie in the impress that it makes upon, and the lessons that it teaches to, the generations that come after.

I cannot consent to take the position that the door of hope - the door of opportunity - is to be shut upon any man, no matter how worthy, purely upon the grounds of race or color. Such an attitude would, according to my convictions, be fundamentally wrong.

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.

There is nothing more practical than the preservation of beauty, than the preservation of anything that appeals to the higher emotions of mankind