Quotes from Theodore Roosevelt
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.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Comparison is the thief of joy.
- Theodore Roosevelt
The greatest historian should also be a great moralist. It is no proof of impartiality to treat wickedness and goodness on the same level.
- Theodore Roosevelt
All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune-make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Then get busy and find out how to do it.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Power always brings with it responsibility.
- Theodore Roosevelt
From the very beginning our people have markedly combined practical capacity for affairs with power of devotion to an ideal. The lack of either quality would have rendered the other of small value.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Pray not for lighter burdens but for stronger backs.
- Theodore Roosevelt
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
- Theodore Roosevelt
The nation should be ruled by the Ten Commandments.
- Theodore Roosevelt
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
- Theodore Roosevelt
The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.
- Theodore Roosevelt