1,051 Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt

Every child has inside him an aching void for excitement and if we don’t fill it with something which is exciting and interesting and good for him, he will fill it with something which is exciting and interesting and which isn’t good for him.

There are those who believe that a new modernity demands a new morality. What they fail to consider is the harsh reality that there is no such thing as a new morality. There is only one morality. All else is immorality.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

Thank God for the iron in the blood of our fathers.

Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.

I do not believe that any man can adequately appreciate the world of to-day unless he has some knowledge of – a little more than a slight knowledge, some feeling for and of – the history of the world of the past.

No, I’m not a good shot, but I shoot often.

No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood – the virtues that made America.