Quotes from Theodore Roosevelt

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

While President, I have been President, emphatically; I have used every ounce of power there was in the office.…I do not believe that any President ever had as thoroughly good a time as I have had, or has ever enjoyed himself as much.

training in the writing of good English is indispensable to any learned man who expects to make his learning count for what it ought to count in the effect on his fellow men.

You must do it alone.

We did everything possible to keep up the spirits of the men, but it was exceedingly difficult because there was nothing for them to do.

But a man whose business is sedentary should get some kind of exercise if he wishes to keep himself in as good physical trim as his brethren who do manual labor.

The existence of any method, standard, custom or practice is no reason for its continuance when a better is offered.

Just as democratic government cannot be condemned because of errors and even crimes committed by men democratically elected, so trade-unionism must not be condemned because of errors or crimes of occasional trade-union leaders.

In the same way I have always regarded boxing as a first-class sport to encourage in the Young Men's Christian Association.

We must exercise the largest charity towards the wrong-doer that is compatible with relentless war against the wrong-doing. We must be just to others, generous to others, and yet we must realize that it is a shameful and a wicked thing not to withstand oppression with high heart and ready hand.

In a moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

Each man should have all he earns, whether by brain or body; and the director, the great industrial leader, is one of the greatest of earners, and should have a proportional reward; but no man should live on the earnings of another, and there should not be too gross inequality between service and reward.