1,051 Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt

Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready.

To borrow a simile from the football field, we believe that men must play fair, but that there must be no shirking, and that the success can only come to the player who hits the line hard.

There is no reason why people should not call themselves Cubists, or Octagonists, or Parallelopipedonists, orKnights oftheIsoscelesTriangle, or Brothers of the Cosine, if they so desire; as expressing anything serious and permanent, one term is as fatuous as another.

We will send ships and Marines as soon as possible for the protection of American life and property.

Success, the real success, does not depend upon the position you hold but upon how you carry yourself in that position.

To every man who faces life with real desire to do his part in everything, I appeal for a study of the Bible.

From its origin to the present hour, in all its vicissitudes, Masonry has been the steady unwearing friend of man.

In doing your work in the great world, it is a safe plan to follow a rule I once heard on the football field: Don't flinch, don't fall; hit the line hard.

I wish that all Americans would realize that American politics is world politics.