Theodore Roosevelt

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

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

We cannot do great deeds unless we're willing to do the small things that make up the sum of greatness.

Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood - the virtues that made America.

In popular government results worth while can only be achieved by men who combine worthy ideals with practical good sense.

The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value.

Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.

Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life.

There is a delight in the hardy life of the open.

The name Roosevelt has this legendary force in our country at this time.

I would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I have acted as I ought not to.

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.

Look Toward the stars but keep your feet firmly on the ground.

It was a pleasure to deal with a man of high ideals, who scorned everything mean and base, and who possessed those robust and hardy qualities of body and mind, for the lack of which no merely negative virtue can ever atone.

The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great enthusiasums, the great devotions, and spend themselves in a worthy cause; who at best know the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if they fail, fail while daring greatly, so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.