Theodore Roosevelt

The Constitution was made for the people and not the people for the Constitution.

Theodore Roosevelt

The country is the place for children, and if not the country, a city small enough so that one can get out into the country.

Theodore Roosevelt

The dreams of golden glory in the future will not come true unless, high of heart and strong of hand, by our own mighty deeds we make them come true.

Theodore Roosevelt

The dull, purblind folly of the very rich men, their greed and arrogance, and the corruption in business and politics, have tended to produce a very unhealthy condition.

Theodore Roosevelt

The duties are even more important than the rights; and in the long run I think that the reward is ampler and greater for duty well done, than for the insistence upon individual rights.

Theodore Roosevelt

The existence of any method, standard, custom or practice is no reason for its continuance when a better is offered.

Theodore Roosevelt

The extermination of the buffalo has been a veritable tragedy of the animal world.

Theodore Roosevelt

The farther one gets into the wilderness, the greater is the attraction of its lonely freedom.

Theodore Roosevelt

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

Theodore Roosevelt

The fool who has not sense to discriminate between what is good and what is bad is well nigh as dangerous as the man who does discriminate and yet chooses the bad.

Theodore Roosevelt