Theodore Roosevelt

We face the future with our past and our present as guarantors of our promises; and we are content to stand or to fall by the record which we have made and are making.

Theodore Roosevelt

We must all either wear out or rust out, every one of us. My choice is to wear out.

Theodore Roosevelt

We must diligently strive to make our young men decent, God-fearing, law-abiding, honor-loving, justice-doing and also fearless and strong.

Theodore Roosevelt

We must hold to a rigid accountability those public servants who show unfaithfulness to the interests of the nation or inability to rise to the high level of the new demands upon our strength and our resources.

Theodore Roosevelt

We must treat each man on his worth and merits as a man. We must see that each is given a square deal, because he is entitled to no more and should receive no less.

Theodore Roosevelt

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Theodore Roosevelt

We want men who will fix their eyes on the stars, but who will not forget that their feet must walk on the ground.

Theodore Roosevelt

What a man does for himself, dies with him. What a man does for his community lives long after he’s gone.

Theodore Roosevelt

What counts in a man or in a nation is not what the man or the nation can do, but what he or it actually does.

Theodore Roosevelt

When I hear of the destruction of a species, I feel just as if all the works of some great writer have perished.

Theodore Roosevelt