More Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt
There is but one answer to terrorism and it is best delivered with a Winchester rifle.
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.
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
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 them 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 at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.
Nothing worth having was ever achieved without effort.
Comparison is the thief of joy.
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.
Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
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.
