Quotes from Theodore Roosevelt
The corporation that shrinks from the light" would have anything to fear from government. About the welfare of such corporations we need not be oversensitive.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
- Theodore Roosevelt
No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
- Theodore Roosevelt
There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
- 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.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Nothing worth having was ever achieved without effort.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Freedom is not a gift which can be enjoyed save by those shown themselves worthy of it.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Kings and such are just as funny as politicians.
- Theodore Roosevelt
A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless.
- Theodore Roosevelt