1,051 Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.

I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.

A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.