Quotes from Theodore Roosevelt

The truth is that any good modern rifle is good enough. The determining factor is the man behind the gun.

Short-sighted men who in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination of all useful and beautiful wild things.

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

The little owls call to each other with tremulous, quavering voices throughout the livelong night, as they sit in the creaking trees.

No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care

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

The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.

Weasel words from mollycoddles will never do when the day demands prophetic clarity from greathearts. Manly men must emerge for this hour of trial.

No man who is not willing to bear arms and to fight for his rights can give a good reason why he should be entitled to the privilege of living in a free community.

To sit home, read one's favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men's doing.

The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the state because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of government.

Unless the man is master of his soul all other kinds of mastery amount to little.

We want men who will fix their eyes on the stars, but who will not forget that their feet must walk on the ground.

We can have no "50-50" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checked by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

The men and women who have the right ideals ... are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Have you got a problem? Do what you can where you are with what you've got.

No man is above the law and no man below it.

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified...

In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get alnog with people.