Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Americanism is a question of principles, of idealism, of character: it is not a matter of birthplace or creed or line of descent.

The most important single ingredient in the formula for success is the knack of getting along with people.

The only person who never makes mistakes is the one who never does anything.

In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing.

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

We have room in this country but for one flag, the Stars and Stripes. We have room for but one loyalty, loyalty to the United States. We have room for but one language, the English language.

We are fighting in the quarrel of civilization against barbarism, of liberty against tyranny. Germany has become a menace to the whole world. She is the most dangerous enemy of liberty now existing.

There is no reason why people should not call themselves Cubists, or Octagonists, or Parallelopipedonists, or Knights of the Isosceles Triangle, or Brothers of the Cosine, if they so desire; as expressing anything serious and permanent, one term is as fatuous as another.

Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism is not uncommon; it is the combination that is necessary, and that combination is rare.

I stand for the square deal…not merely for fair play under the present rules of the game, but for having those rules changed, so as to work for a more substantial equality of opportunity and of reward for equally good service.

In the western hemisphere, the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may force the United States, however reluctantly, in flagrant cases of wrongdoing or impotence, to the exercise of an international police power.

There is a homely adage that runs, ‘Speak softly and carry a big stick, and you will go far.’ If the American nation will speak softly and yet build, and keep at a pitch of the highest training, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.