More Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt
Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.
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.
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.
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.
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.
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
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.
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.
What a man does for himself, dies with him. What a man does for his community lives long after he's gone.
Comparison is the thief of joy.
