Theodore Roosevelt

The performance of duty, and not an indulgence in vapid ease and vapid pleasure, is all that makes life worth while.

Theodore Roosevelt

The position now taken by the Government is absolutely destructive of legitimate business, because they outline no rule of conduct for business of any magnitude.

Theodore Roosevelt

The power of the journalist is great, but he is entitled neither to respect nor admiration because of that power unless it is used aright.

Theodore Roosevelt

The public must retain control of the great waterways. It is essential that any permit to obstruct them for reasons and on conditions that seem good at the moment should be subject to revision when changed conditions demand.

Theodore Roosevelt

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

Theodore Roosevelt

The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.

Theodore Roosevelt

The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.

Theodore Roosevelt

The six great gifts of an Irish girl are beauty, soft voice, sweet speech, wisdom, needlework, and chastity.

Theodore Roosevelt

The sons of all of us will pay in the future if we of the present do not do justice in the present.

Theodore Roosevelt

The spirit of brotherhood recognizes of necessity both the need of self-help and also the need of helping others in the only way which every ultimately does great god, that is, of helping them to help themselves.

Theodore Roosevelt