“To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day”
— Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
— Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
— Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
“People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care”
— Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
“To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”
— Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.”
— Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president."
— Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
"This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in."
— Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
"Do Something Now. If not you, who? If not here, where? If not now, when?"
— Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
"He who makes no mistakes makes no progress."
— Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
"Most of us tiptoe through life in order to make it safely to death."
— Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
"All contributions by corporations to any political committee or for any political purpose should be forbidden by law."
— Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
"This country has nothing to fear from the crooked man who fails. We put him in jail. It is the crooked man who succeeds who is a threat to this country."
— Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
"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."
— Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
"Americans learn only from catastrophe and not from experience."
— Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
"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."
— Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
"Honesty first; then courage; then brains - and all are indispensable."
— Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
"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."
— Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
"Nothing worth having was ever achieved without effort."
— Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
"All the resources we need are in the mind."
— Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)