1,051 Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt

Don't limit your challenges - challenge your limits. Don't spread patriotism too thin.

There is a delight in the hardy life of the open.

A party should not contain utterly incongruous elements, radically divided on the real issues, and acting together only on false and dead issues insincerely painted as real and vital. It should not in the several States as well as in the Nation be prostituted to the service of the baser type of political boss. It should be so composed that there should be a reasonable agreement in the actions taken by it both in the Nation and in the several States. Judged by these standards, both of the old parties break down.

All the resources we need are in the mind.

Society has no business to permit degenerates to reproduce their kind

My position as regards the monied interests can be put in a few words. In every civilized society property rights must be carefully safeguarded; ordinarily and in the great majority of cases, human rights and property rights are fundamentally and in the long run, identical; but when it clearly appears that there is a real conflict between them, human rights must have the upper hand; for property belongs to man and not man to property.

Perhaps the most incapable Executive that ever filled the presidential chair...it would be difficult to imagine a man less fit to guide the state with honor and safety through the stormy times that marked the opening of the present century.

I have no business to feel downcast or querulous merely because when so much as been given me I have not had even more.

...to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.