More Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt
Comparison is the thief of joy.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
He who makes no mistakes makes no progress.
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
The one absolute certain way to bring this nation to ruin ... would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.
Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready.
There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.
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.
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.
