1,051 Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt

Just as you believe you may have already halfway there

What counts in a man or in a nation is not what the man or the nation can do, but what he or it actually does.

Kings and such are just as funny as politicians.

I hold that in this country there must be complete severance of Church and State; that public moneys shall not be used for the purpose of advancing any particular creed; and therefore that the public schools shall be nonsectarian and no public moneys appropriated for sectarian schools.

Nothing is gained by debate on non-debatable subjects.

Much of the discussion about socialism and individualism is entirely pointless, because of failure to agree on terminology.

With self-discipline, all things are possible

With a great moral issue involved, neutrality does not serve righteousness; for to be neutral between right and wrong is to serve wrong.

The best lesson that any people can learn is that there is no patent cure-all which will make the body politic perfect, and that any man who is able glibly to answer every question as to how to deal with the evils of the body politic is at best a foolish visionary and at worst an evil-minded quack.