Theodore Roosevelt Quotes.
The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.
When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‘Present’ or ‘Not guilty.’
Most of us tiptoe through life in order to make it safely to death.
Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering.
This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.
The American people abhor a vacuum.
A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.
Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.
The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.
I don’t pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.
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.
The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.
The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.
With self-discipline most anything is possible.
The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.
