Theodore Roosevelt

I have only a second rate brain, but I think I have a capacity for action.

Theodore Roosevelt

I must be wanting to be President. Every young man does. But I won’t let myself think of it; I must not, because if I do, I will begin to work for it; I’ll be careful, calculating, cautious in word and act, and so – I’ll beat myself.

Theodore Roosevelt

I never keep boys waiting. It’s a hard trial for a boy to wait.

Theodore Roosevelt

I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.

Theodore Roosevelt

I represent the public, not public opinion.

Theodore Roosevelt

I stand for the square deal. I mean not merely that I stand for fair play under the present rules of the game, but that I stand for having those rules changed so as to work for a more substantial equality of opportunity and of reward for equally good service.

Theodore Roosevelt

I then believed, and now believe, that the greatest privilege and greatest duty for any man is to be happily married, and that no other form of success or service, for either man or woman, can be wisely accepted as a substitute or alternative.

Theodore Roosevelt

I think we are warranted in contending that a society thus constituted, and which may be rendered so admirable an engine of improvement, far from meriting reproach, deserves highly of the community.

Theodore Roosevelt

I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.

Theodore Roosevelt

I want to see you shoot the way you shout.

Theodore Roosevelt