More Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt
Do Something Now. If not you, who? If not here, where? If not now, when?
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
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.
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.
Nothing worth having was ever achieved without effort.
There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
What a man does for himself, dies with him. What a man does for his community lives long after he's gone.
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of today.
The one absolute certain way to bring this nation to ruin ... would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.
