Theodore Roosevelt

I was not going to earn money, I must even things up by not spending it.

Theodore Roosevelt

I wish that all Americans would realize that American politics is world politics.

Theodore Roosevelt

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

Theodore Roosevelt

I wish to see the Bible study as much a matter of course in the secular colleges as in the seminary.

Theodore Roosevelt

I wish very much that the wrong people could be prevented entirely from breeding.

Theodore Roosevelt

I would a great deal rather be anything, say professor of history, than vice president.

Theodore Roosevelt

I would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I have acted as I ought not to.

Theodore Roosevelt

If a man continually blusters, if he lacks civility, a big stick will not save him from trouble, and neither will speaking softly avail, if back of the softness there does not lie strength, power.

Theodore Roosevelt

If a man has a very decided character, has a strongly accentuated career, it is normally the case of course that he makes ardent friends and bitter enemies.

Theodore Roosevelt

If a nation shows that it knows how to act with reasonable efficiency and decency in social and political matters, if it keeps order and pays its obligations, it need fear no interference from the United States.

Theodore Roosevelt