Theodore Roosevelt

Councils of war never fight.

Theodore Roosevelt

Credit should go with the performance of duty, and not with what is very often the accident of glory.

Theodore Roosevelt

Death by violence, death by cold, death by starvation – they are the normal endings of the stately creatures of the wilderness. The sentimentalists who prattle about the peaceful life of nature do not realize its utter mercilessness.

Theodore Roosevelt

Death is always, under all circumstances, a tragedy, for if it is not then it means that life has become one.

Theodore Roosevelt

Do not get into a fight if you can possibly avoid it. If you get in, see it through. Don’t hit if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft. Don’t hit at all if you can help it; don’t hit a man if you can possibly avoid it; but if you do hit him, put him to sleep.

Theodore Roosevelt

Don’t foul, don’t flinch-hit the line hard.

Theodore Roosevelt

Don’t spread patriotism too thin.

Theodore Roosevelt

Each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune.

Theodore Roosevelt

Envy is as evil a thing as arrogance.

Theodore Roosevelt

Especially as regards the laws relating to marriage there should be the most absolute equality between the two sexes. I do not think the woman should assume the man’s name.

Theodore Roosevelt