1,051 Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.