Quotes from Theodore Roosevelt

The truth is that any good modern rifle is good enough. The determining factor is the man behind the gun.

The little owls call to each other with tremulous, quavering voices throughout the livelong night, as they sit in the creaking trees.

No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.

To sit home, read one's favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men's doing.

The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the state because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of government.

We can have no "50-50" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart, and that is softness of head.

To waste and destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them.

In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing.