Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting;

but never hit soft.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty.

The young are slaves to dreams;

the old servants of regrets.

Only the middle

aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

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.

The boy who is going to make a great man

must not make up his mind merely to overcome

a thousand obstacles,

but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

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.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

The things that will destroy America are

prosperity at any price, peace at any price,

safety first instead of duty first,

the love of soft living, and the get rich quick theory of life.

Get action.

Seize the moment.

Man was never intended to become an oyster.

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours

is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country

is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

Nine tenths of wisdom

is being wise in time.

When they call the roll in the Senate,

the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'

The government is us;

we are the government,

you and I.

The reactionary is always willing to take

a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em,

'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

The best executive is one who has sense

enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self

restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Order without liberty and liberty without order

are equally destructive.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president...

is morally treasonable to the American public.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind,

but great actions speak to all mankind.

The most important single ingredient in

the formula of success is knowing

how to get along with people.