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Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

Theodore Roosevelt quotes

American President October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919

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In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing."[The Information Technology Management Reform Act of 1995: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management and the District of Columbia of the Committee on Governmental Affairs (1996)] Theodore Roosevelt
Our aim is not to do away with corporations; on the contrary, these big aggregations are an inevitable development of modern industrialism, and the effort to destroy them would be futile unless accomplished in ways that would work the utmost mischief to the entire body politic. We can do nothing of good in the way of regulating and supervising these corporations until we fix clearly in our minds that we are not attacking the corporations, but endeavoring to do away with any evil in them. We... Theodore Roosevelt
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt quote: "It is difficult to make our material condition better by the..."
It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws. Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt quote: "Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it,..."
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young. Theodore Roosevelt
Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures. Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt quote: "The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive..."
The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead. Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt quote: "90% of the work in this country is doneby people who don't..."
90% of the work in this country is doneby people who don't feel good". Theodore Roosevelt
Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war, there is none which compares in importance with the great central task of leaving this land even a better land for our descendants than it is for us. Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt quote: "A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college..."
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education. Theodore Roosevelt
The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits. Theodore Roosevelt
If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name. Theodore Roosevelt
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. Theodore Roosevelt
To waste, to 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 amplified and developed. Theodore Roosevelt
It is a mere truism to say that every nation, whether in America or anywhere else, which desires to maintain its freedom, its independence, must ultimately realize that the right of such independence cannot be separated from the responsibility of making good use of it. Theodore Roosevelt

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