Most Famous of Theodore Roosevelt Quotes You should Follow

Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

“There is but one answer to terrorism and it is best delivered with a Winchester rifle.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

“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.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

“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.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

“Knowing what’s right doesn’t mean much unless you do what’s right.”
— Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

“What a man does for himself, dies with him. What a man does for his community lives long after he’s gone.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

“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.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

“Nothing worth having was ever achieved without effort.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

“If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

“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.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

“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.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

“Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

“The one absolute certain way to bring this nation to ruin … would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

“Do Something Now. If not you, who? If not here, where? If not now, when?”
— Theodore Roosevelt

“In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man’s becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

“To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

“Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children’s children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

“A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

“He who makes no mistakes makes no progress.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

“All contributions by corporations to any political committee or for any political purpose should be forbidden by law.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

“Our government, National and State, must be freed from the sinister influence or control of special interests. Exactly as the special interests of cotton and slavery threatened our political integrity before the Civil War, so now the great special business interests too often control and corrupt the men and methods of government for their own profit. We must drive the special interests out of politics.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

“When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‘Present’ or ‘Not guilty.'”
— Theodore Roosevelt

“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.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

“A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

“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

“You can’t choose your potential, but you can choose to fulfill it.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

“Most of us tiptoe through life in order to make it safely to death.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

“Show me a man who makes no mistakes, and I will show you a man who doesn’t do things.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

“Any man who tries to excite class hatred, sectional hate, hate of creeds, any kind of hatred in our community, though he may affect to do it in the interest of the class he is addressing, is in the long run with absolute certainty that class’s own worst enemy.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

“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.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

“Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

“Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

“The worst lesson that can be taught to a man is to rely upon others and to whine over his sufferings.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

“Comparison is the thief of joy.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

“The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything. Do not be afraid to make mistakes providing you do not make the same one twice.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

“Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

“Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

“The bosses of the Democratic party and the bosses of the Republican party alike have a closer grip than ever before on the party machines in the States and in the Nation. This crooked control of both the old parties by the beneficiaries of political and business privilege renders it hopeless to expect any far-reaching and fundamental service from either.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

“A nation that still needs to distinguish between stealing an election, and stealing a new pair of shoes, is not completely civilized yet.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

“A soft, easy life is not worth living, if it impairs the fibre of brain and heart and muscle. We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage… For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

“There should be at least ten times the number of rifles in the country as there are now.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

“It is the people, and not the judges, who are entitled to say what their constitution means, for the constitution is theirs, it belongs to them and not to their servants in office—any other theory is incompatible with the foundation principles of our government.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

“Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

“Of one man in especial, beyond anyone else, the citizens of a republic should beware, and that is of the man who appeals to them to support him on the ground that he is hostile to other citizens of the republic, that he will secure for those who elect him, in one shape or another, a selfish advantage over their neighbors.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

“No man can be a great leader who lacks confidence in himself.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

“There is no substitute for hard work.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

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