Theodore Roosevelt

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

Theodore Roosevelt

The mass of the American people are most emphatically not in the deplorable condition of which you speak.

Theodore Roosevelt

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

Theodore Roosevelt

The mother is the one supreme asset of national life; she is more important by far than the successful statesman, or business man, or artist, or scientist.

Theodore Roosevelt

The nation behaves well if it treats its natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value.

Theodore Roosevelt

The object of government is the welfare of the people.

Theodore Roosevelt

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.

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

The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities.

Theodore Roosevelt

The only way to get good service is to give somebody power to render it, facing the fact that power which will enable a man to do a job well will also necessarily enable him to do it ill if he is the wrong kind of man.

Theodore Roosevelt