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"Theodore Roosevelt was a giant of a man."
--Serge G. Mihaly, Jr

There is not in all America a more dangerous trait than the deification of mere smartness unaccompanied by any sense of moral responsibility."
-- Theodore Roosevelt - Abilene, KS, May 2, 1903

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

-- Theodore Roosevelt - "Citizenship in a Republic,"
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910

"Criticism is necessary and useful; it is often indispensable; but it can never take the place of action, or be even a poor substitute for it. The function of the mere critic is of very subordinate usefulness. It is the doer of deeds who actually counts in the battle for life, and not the man who looks on and says how the fight ought to be fought, without himself sharing the stress and the danger." (1894
-- Theodore Roosevelt

"Let the watchwords of all our people be the old familiar watchwords of honesty, decency, fair-dealing, and commonsense."... "We must treat each man on his worth and merits as a man. We must see that each is given a square deal, because he is entitled to no more and should receive no less.""The welfare of each of us is dependent fundamentally upon the welfare of all of us."
-- Theodore Roosevelt - New York State Fair, Syracuse, September 7, 1903

"We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal."
-- Theodore Roosevelt - Letter to Sir Edward Gray, November 15, 1913

"The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. 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. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else."

-- Theodore Roosevelt - "Roosevelt in the Kansas City Star", 149
May 7, 1918

"Viewed purely in the abstract, I think there can be no question that women should have equal rights with men."..."Especially as regards the laws relating to marriage there should be the most absolute equality between the two sexes. I do not think the woman should assume the man's name."
-- Theodore Roosevelt - "The Practicability of Equalizing Men and Women before the Law"
Senior thesis at Harvard, 1880

"Much can be done by law towards putting women on a footing of complete and entire equal rights with man - including the right to vote, the right to hold and use property, and the right to enter any profession she desires on the same terms as the man."..."Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work is as valuable as that of a man it should be paid as highly."
-- Theodore Roosevelt - An Autobiography, 1913

"Working women have the same need to protection that working men have; the ballot is as necessary for one class as to the other; we do not believe that with the two sexes there is identity of function; but we do believe there should be equality of right."
-- Theodore Roosevelt - Speech, National Convention of the Progressive Party, Chicago, IL, August 6, 1912

"It is no use to preach to [children] if you do not act decently yourself."
-- Theodore Roosevelt - Speech to Holy Name Society, Oyster Bay, August 16, 1903

"For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly makes all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison."
-- Theodore Roosevelt - An Autobiography, 1913

"The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name."
-- Theodore Roosevelt

"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."
-- Theodore Roosevelt - Chicago, IL, April 10, 1899

"Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground."
-- Theodore Roosevelt - The Groton School, Groton, MA, May 24, 1904

"Optimism is a good characteristic, but if carried to an excess, it becomes foolishness. We are prone to speak of the resources of this country as inexhaustible; this is not so."
-- Theodore Roosevelt - Seventh Annual Message to Congress, December 3, 1907

"There can be no greater issue than that of conservation in this country."
-- Theodore Roosevelt - Confession of Faith Speech, Progressive National Convention, Chicago, IL, August 6, 1912

"Defenders of the short-sighted men who in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination of all useful and beautiful wild things sometimes seek to champion them by saying the 'the game belongs to the people.' So it does; and not merely to the people now alive, but to the unborn people. The 'greatest good for the greatest number' applies to the number within the womb of time, compared to which those now alive form but an insignificant fraction. Our duty to the whole, including the unborn generations, bids us restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage of these unborn generations. The movement for the conservation of wild life and the larger movement for the conservation of all our natural resources are essentially democratic in spirit, purpose, and method."
-- Theodore Roosevelt - A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open, 1916

"The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others."
-- Theodore Roosevelt - Address to the Deep Waterway Convention, Memphis, TN, October 4, 1907

"Thrice happy is the nation that has a glorious history. Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat."
-- Theodore Roosevelt - "The Strenuous Life"

"Is America a weakling, to shrink from the work of the great world powers? No! The young giant of the West stands on a continent and clasps the crest of an ocean in either hand. Our nation, glorious in youth and strength, looks into the future with eager eyes and rejoices as a strong man to run a race."
-- Theodore Roosevelt - Letter to John Hay, American Ambassador to the Court of St. James, London, Written in Washington, DC, June 7, 1897

"A healthy-minded boy should feel hearty contempt for the coward and even more hearty indignation for the boy who bullies girls or small boys, or tortures animals."..."What we have a right to expect of the American boy is that he shall turn out to be a good American man."
-- Theodore Roosevelt - "The American Boy," St. Nicholas Magazine, May 1900

"There are good men and bad men of all nationalities, creeds and colors; and if this world of ours is ever to become what we hope some day it may become, it must be by the general recognition that the man's heart and soul, the man's worth and actions, determine his standing."
-- Theodore Roosevelt - Letter, Oyster Bay, NY, September 1, 1903

If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base and sordid creature, no matter how successful."
-- Theodore Roosevelt - Letter to his son Kermit, quoted in Theodore Roosevelt by Joseph Bucklin Bishop, 1915

"There are two things that I want you to make up your minds to: first, that you are going to have a good time as long as you live - I have no use for the sour-faced man - and next, that you are going to do something worthwhile, that you are going to work hard and do the things you set out to do."
-- Theodore Roosevelt - Talk to schoolchildren in Oyster Bay, Christmastime 1898

"I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds."
-- Theodore Roosevelt - Oyster Bay, NY, July 7, 1915

"The object of government is the welfare of the people." "Conservation means development as much as it does protection. I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use the natural resources of our land; but I do not recognize the right to waste them, or to rob, by wasteful use, the generations that come after us."
-- Theodore Roosevelt - "The New Nationalism" speech, Osawatomie, Kansas, August 31, 1910

"This country will not be a permanently good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a reasonably good place for all of us to live in."
-- Theodore Roosevelt - Chicago, IL, June 17, 1912

"I don't think any President ever enjoyed himself more than I did. Moreover, I don't think any ex-President ever enjoyed himself more."... "Success - the real success - does not depend upon the position you hold, but upon how you carry yourself in that position."
-- Theodore Roosevelt - University of Cambridge, England, May 26, 1910

"A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user."
-- Theodore Roosevelt - An Autobiography, 1913

"I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life; I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well."
-- Theodore Roosevelt - Des Moines, Iowa, November 4, 1910

"The worst of all fears is the fear of living."
-- Theodore Roosevelt - An Autobiography, 1913

"There were all kinds of things I was afraid of at first, ranging from grizzly bears to 'mean' horses and gun-fighters; but by acting as if I was not afraid I gradually ceased to be afraid."
-- Theodore Roosevelt - An Autobiography, 1913

"To borrow a simile from the football field, we believe that men must play fair, but that there must be no shirking, and that the success can only come to the player who 'hits the line hard.' "
-- Theodore Roosevelt - Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, NY, October 1897

"Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready."
-- Theodore Roosevelt - San Francisco, CA, May 13, 1903

"Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck." "An epidemic in indiscriminate assault upon character does not good, but very great harm." "There should be relentless exposure of and attack upon every evil practice, whether in politics, in business, or in social life. I hail as a benefactor every writer or speaker, every man who, on the platform, or in book, magazine or newspaper, with merciless severity makes such attack, provided always that he in his turn remembers that the attack is of use only if it is absolutely truthful."
-- Theodore Roosevelt - Washington, DC, April 14, 1906

"No man can lead a public career really worth leading, no man can act with rugged independence in serious crises, nor strike at great abuses, nor afford to make powerful and unscrupulous foes, if he is himself vulnerable in his private character."
-- Theodore Roosevelt - An Autobiography, 1913

"This country will not be a permanently good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a reasonably good place for all of us to live in."
-- Theodore Roosevelt - Chicago, IL, June 17, 1912

"There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and then shame upon him who will not stretch out the helping hand to his brother."
-- Theodore Roosevelt - Pasadena, CA, May 8, 1903

"Don't hit at all if you can help it; don't hit a man if you can possibly avoid it; but if you do hit him, put him to sleep."
-- Theodore Roosevelt - New York City, February 17, 1899

"It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer."
-- Theodore Roosevelt - Berkeley, CA, 1911

"The bulk of government is not legislation but administration."
-- Theodore Roosevelt

"Men can never escape being governed. Either they must govern themselves or they must submit to being governed by others."
-- Theodore Roosevelt - Jamestown, VA, April 26, 1907

"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 - Memphis, TN, October 25, 1905

"Alone of human beings the good and wise mother stands on a plane of equal honor with the bravest soldier; for she has gladly gone down to the brink of the chasm of darkness to bring back the children in whose hands rests the future of the years. "
-- Theodore Roosevelt - The Great Adventure, 1918

There is not in all America a more dangerous trait than the deification of mere smartness unaccompanied by any sense of moral responsibility."
-- Theodore Roosevelt - Abilene, KS, May 2, 1903

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