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Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

"The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.""Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.""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.""The government is us; we are the government, you and I.""If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.""In the long run, the most unpleasant truth is a safer companion than a pleasant falsehood.""To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.""The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.""Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official.""The more you know about the past, the better prepared you are for the future.""Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.""Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.""Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.""We must remember not to judge any public servant by any one act, and especially should we beware of attacking the men who are merely the occasions and not the cause of disaster.""We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.""The men and women who have the right ideals... are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty.""In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: hit the line hard.""Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking.""All the resources we need are in the mind.""Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual; and neither a nation nor an individual can s"

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