Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president."
-Theodore Roosevelt

"If I must choose between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness."
-Theodore Roosevelt

"No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency."
-Theodore Roosevelt in Evil quotes.

"The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything."
-Theodore Roosevelt

"With self-discipline most anything is possible."
-Theodore Roosevelt in Discipline quotes.

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

"A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad."
-Theodore Roosevelt

"A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education."
-Theodore Roosevelt

"When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'"
-Theodore Roosevelt

"Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground."
-Theodore Roosevelt

"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."
-Theodore Roosevelt in Work quotes.

"If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name."
-Theodore Roosevelt

"Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth, the tyranny of plutocracy."
-Theodore Roosevelt

"Put out the light."
-Theodore Roosevelt

"Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it."
-Theodore Roosevelt in Learning quotes.

"The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it."
-Theodore Roosevelt

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, right or wrong - is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."
-Theodore Roosevelt

"While my interest in natural history has added very little to my sum of achievement, it has added immeasurably to my sum of enjoyment in life."
-Theodore Roosevelt

"Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time."
-Theodore Roosevelt

"Spend and be spent."
-Theodore Roosevelt

"It's not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out how the doer of deeds might have done them better. Instead, the credit belongs to the man in the arena whose face is marred by sweat and blood and tears."
-Theodore Roosevelt

"A just war is in the long run far better for a nation's soul than the most prosperous peace obtained by acquiescence in wrong or injustice."
-Theodore Roosevelt

"Far better is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. "
-Theodore Roosevelt

"Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong."
-Theodore Roosevelt in Justice quotes.

"Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft! "
-Theodore Roosevelt

"The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side."
-Theodore Roosevelt

"It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things."
-Theodore Roosevelt