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.

Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords.

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

We have become great because of the lavish use of our resources ... But the time has come to inquire seriously what will happen when our forests are gone, when the coal, the iron, the oil and the gas are exhausted.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words."

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

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.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

No other President ever enjoyed the Presidency as I did.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.

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

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

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.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

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.