Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

Wars are,

of course,

as a rule to be avoided,

but they are far better,

than certain kinds of peace.

No people is wholly civilized

where a distinction is drawn between

stealing an office and stealing a purse.

The American people abhor a vacuum.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means

that there has been effort stored up in the past.

The most successful politician is he who says,

what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

The man who loves other countries as much as

his own stands on a level with the man

who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader

and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are,

how much your contribution has been valued,

what massive potential you have and,

in recognition of all this,

would you mind having your salary halved.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment,

a household of children,

if things go reasonably well,

certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

There has never yet been a man in our history,

who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

Obedience of the law is demanded;

not asked as a favor.

I think there is only one quality worse than

hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals

without ever going higher than a basement.

A typical vice of American politics is

the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science,

and this great war for the victorious peace of justice,

must go on until the German cancer,

is cut clean out of the world body.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

I wish to preach,

not the doctrine of ignoble ease,

but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

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.

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

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law,

but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.