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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.
By 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.
By Theodore Roosevelt
When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.
By Theodore Roosevelt
When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'
By Theodore Roosevelt
When I say I believe in a square deal i do not mean ... to give every man the best hand. If the cards do not come to any man, or if they do come, and he has not got the power to play them, that is his affair. All I mean is that there shall be no crookedness in the dealing.
By Theodore Roosevelt
We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal
By Theodore Roosevelt
Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.
By Theodore Roosevelt
To educate a man in mind, and not in morals, is to educate a menace to society.
By Theodore Roosevelt
To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.
By Theodore Roosevelt
This truth should be kept constantly in mind by every free people desiring to preserve the sanity and poise indispensable to the permanent success of self-government
By Theodore Roosevelt
There is a homely adage which runs: Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far
By Theodore Roosevelt
There is a homely old adage which runs Speak softly and carry a big stick you will go far. If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.
By Theodore Roosevelt
There is a homely old adage which runs: 'Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.' If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.
By Theodore Roosevelt
There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100% Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else.
By Theodore Roosevelt
There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.
By Theodore Roosevelt
The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.
By Theodore Roosevelt
The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
By 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
By Theodore Roosevelt
The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
By Theodore Roosevelt
The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.
By Theodore Roosevelt
The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
By Theodore Roosevelt
The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of continuing to be a nation at all would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.
By Theodore Roosevelt
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
By Theodore Roosevelt