1,051 Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt

Constructive change offers the best method for avoiding destructive change.

Let individuals contribute as they desire; but let us prohibit in effective fashion all corporations from making contributions for any political purpose, directly or indirectly.

The White House is a bully pulpit.

A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy.

When the time of danger comes, all Americans, whatever their social standing, whatever their creed, whatever the training they have received, no matter from what section of the country they have come, stand together as men, as Americans, and are content to face the same fate and do the same duties because fundamentally they all alike have the common purpose to serve the glorious flag of their common country.

We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when any one engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.

A churchless community, a community where men have abandoned and scoffed at or ignored their religious needs, is a community on the rapid downgrade.

The object of government is the welfare of the people.

We have duties to others, and duties to ourselves, and we cannot shirk either.