All Time Famous Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), the 26th President of the United States, was a key figure in the Progressive Era. Born into a wealthy family, he overcame health challenges and served in the Spanish-American War. As Governor of New York, he implemented progressive reforms before assuming the presidency in 1901. Known for his “Square Deal” domestic policy, Roosevelt advocated for fair treatment, trust-busting, and conservation. His foreign policy emphasized diplomacy backed by military strength. After two terms, he ran unsuccessfully for a non-consecutive third term with the Progressive Party in 1912. Roosevelt’s legacy includes breaking up monopolies, expanding conservation efforts, and leaving a lasting impact on American politics. He passed away in 1919, but his contributions endure.

Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

1. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

2. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

3. “Comparison is the thief of joy.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

4. “It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, if he wins, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

5. “Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

6. “Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

7. “No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

8. “When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

9. “Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty. I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

10. “In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

11. “Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

12. “It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

13. “Complaining about a problem without posing a solution is called whining.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

14. “Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell them, “Certainly I can!”. Then get busy and find out how to do it.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

15. “The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

16. “Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

17. “Knowing what’s right doesn’t mean much unless you do what’s right.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

18. “The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred with dust and sweat; who strives valiantly; who errs and may fall again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

19. “When you’re at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

20. “Nothing worth having was ever achieved without effort.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

21. “No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

22. “I am a part of everything that I have read.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

23. “If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

24. “Do Something Now. If not you, who? If not here, where? If not now, when?”
— Theodore Roosevelt

25. “All the resources we need are in the mind. ”
— Theodore Roosevelt

26. “Work hard at work worth doing.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

27. “Get action. Do things; be sane; don’t fritter away your time; create, act, take a place wherever you are and be somebody; get action.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

28. “With self-discipline most anything is possible.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

29. “Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

30. “It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

31. “To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

32. “To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

33. “The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

34. “It is not the critic who counts.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

35. “To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

36. “I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!”
— Theodore Roosevelt

37. “The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

38. “The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

39. “It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

40. “For those who fight for it life has a flavor the sheltered will never know.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

41. “Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children’s children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

42. “Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

43. “People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

44. “The wildlife and its habitat cannot speak, so we must and we will.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

45. “Character is far more important than intellect in making a man a good citizen or successful at his calling- meaning by character not only such qualities as honesty and truthfulness, but courage, perseverance and self-reliance.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

46. “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

47. “Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action…”
— Theodore Roosevelt

48. “I have often been afraid, but I would not give in to it. I made myself act as though I was not afraid and gradually my fear disappeared.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

49. “Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

50. “Conservation is a great moral issue, for it involves the patriotic duty of ensuring the safety and continuance of the nation.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

51. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

52. “We must all either wear out or rust out, every one of us. My choice is to wear out.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

53. “The farther one gets into the wilderness, the greater is the attraction of its lonely freedom.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

54. “There is no effort without error or shortcoming.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

55. “Over-sentimentality, over-softness, in fact washiness and mushiness are the great dangers of this age and of this people. Unless we keep the barbarian virtues, gaining the civilized ones will be of little avail.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

56. “So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

57. “You can’t choose your potential, but you can choose to fulfill it.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

58. “With great victory comes great sacrifice.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

59. “Success, the real success, does not depend upon the position you hold but upon how you carry yourself in that position.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

60. “I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

61. “Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

62. “This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

63. “The reason fat men are good-natured is they can neither fight nor run.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

64. “Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

65. “Profanity is the parlance of the fool. Why curse when there is such a magnificent language with which to discourse?”
— Theodore Roosevelt

66. “If you’ve got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

67. “If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

68. “Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

69. “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

70. “Honesty first; then courage; then brains – and all are indispensable.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

71. “What such a man needs is not courage but nerve control, cool headedness. This he can get only by practice.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

72. “Each man must work for himself, and unless he so works, no outside help can avail him.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

73. “I do. That is character!”
— Theodore Roosevelt

74. “Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work must no longer be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

75. “No people on earth have more cause to be thankful than ours, and this is said reverently, in no spirit of boastfulness in our own strength, but with the gratitude to the Giver of good who has blessed us.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

76. “Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

77. “Don’t foul, don’t flinch-hit the line hard.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

78. “No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man’s permission when we ask him to obey it.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

79. “Cowardice in a race, as in an individual, is the unpardonable sin.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

80. “The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

81. “It’s not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of the deeds could have done better.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

82. “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

83. “Freemasonry teaches not merely temperance, fortitude, prudence, justice, brotherly love, relief, and truth, but liberty, equality, and fraternity, and it denounces ignorance, superstition, bigotry, lust tyranny and despotism.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

84. “The greatest historian should also be a great moralist. It is no proof of impartiality to treat wickedness and goodness on the same level.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

85. “It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

86. “The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

87. “We can have no ‘50-50’ allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

88. “Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

89. “All contributions by corporations to any political committee or for any political purpose should be forbidden by law.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

90. “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

91. “Perhaps there is no more important component of character than steadfast resolution.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

92. “Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

93. “There can be no greater issue than that of conservation in this country.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

94. “The Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war…”
— Theodore Roosevelt

95. “Society has no business to permit degenerates to reproduce their kind.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

96. “It may be that ‘the voice of the people is the voice of God’ in fifty-one cases out of a hundred, but in the remaining forty nine it is quite as likely to be the voice of the devil, of, what is still worse, the voice of a fool.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

97. “From the greatest to the smallest, happiness and usefulness are largely found in the same soul, and the joy of life is won in its deepest and truest sense only by those who have not shirked life’s burdens.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

98. “There should be at least ten times the number of rifles in the country as there are now.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

99. “I am simply unable to understand the value placed by so many people upon great wealth.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

100. “Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

101. “No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

102. “Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

103. “With a great moral issue involved, neutrality does not serve righteousness; for to be neutral between right and wrong is to serve wrong.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

104. “A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

105. “Each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

106. “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

107. “No triumph of peace can equal the armed triumph of war.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

108. “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

109. “Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

110. “Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood – the virtues that made America.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

111. “Nowhere, not at sea, does a man feel more lonely than when riding over the far-reaching, seemingly never-ending plains…”
— Theodore Roosevelt

112. “A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guarantee of peace.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

113. “Every man owes a part of his time and money to the business or industry in which he is engaged. No man has the moral right to withhold his support from an organization that is striving to improve conditions within his sphere.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

114. “I dream of men who take the next step instead of worrying about the next thousand steps.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

115. “The light has gone out of my life.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

116. “The truth is that any good modern rifle is good enough. The determining factor is the man behind the gun.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

117. “Let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

118. “He who makes no mistakes makes no progress.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

119. “There can be no life without change, and to be afraid of what is different or unfamiliar is to be afraid of life.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

120. “No man is above the law, and no man is below it.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

121. “Burning fossil fuels is like breaking up the furniture to feed the fireplace because it’s easier than going out to the woodpile.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

122. “The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

123. “Life brings sorrows and joys alike. It is what a man does with them – not what they do to him – that is the true test of his mettle.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

124. “The Welfare of Each of Us Is Dependent Fundamentally Upon the Welfare of All of Us.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

125. “All for each, and each for all, is a good motto; but only on condition that each works with might and main to so maintain himself as not to be a burden to others.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

126. “Every person who invests in well-selected real estate in a growing section of a prosperous community adopts the surest and safest method of becoming independent, for real estate is the basis of wealth.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

127. “Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

128. “The eighth commandment reads, “Thou shalt not steal.” It does not read, “Thou shalt not steal from the rich man.” It does not read, “Thou shalt not steal from the poor man.” It reads simply and plainly, “Thou shalt not steal.””
— Theodore Roosevelt

129. “The man who really counts in the world is the doer, not the mere critic – the man who actually does the work, even if roughly and imperfectly, not the man who only talks or writes about how it ought to be done.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

130. “In the long run, the most unpleasant truth is a safer companion than a pleasant falsehood.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

131. “Black care rarely sits behind the rider whose pace is fast enough.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

132. “Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

133. “Never hit if you can help it, but when you have to, hit hard. Never hit soft. You’ll never get any thanks for hitting soft.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

134. “Leave it as it is. You can not improve on it. You can only mar it. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it. What you can do is keep it for your children, your children’s children and for all who come after you.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

135. “The establishment of the National Park Service is justified by considerations of good administration, of the value of natural beauty as a National asset, and of the effectiveness of outdoor life and recreation in the production of good citizenship.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

136. “What I am to be, I am becoming.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

137. “A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

138. “The conservation of our natural resources and their proper use constitute the fundamental problem which underlies almost every other problem of our national life.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

139. “Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

140. “A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

141. “It’s not having been in the Dark House, but having left it that counts.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

142. “Americans learn only from catastrophe and not from experience.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

143. “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

144. “Unless the man is master of his soul all other kinds of mastery amount to little.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

145. “What a man does for himself, dies with him. What a man does for his community lives long after he’s gone.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

146. “Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

147. “We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort; the man who never wrongs his neighbor, who is prompt to help a friend, but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

148. “The worst of all fears is the fear of living.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

149. “I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

150. “Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

151. “Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

152. “No President has ever enjoyed himself as much as I?”
— Theodore Roosevelt

153. “The joy of living is his who has the heart to demand it. Life is a great adventure, and I want to say to you, accept it in such a spirit.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

154. “An Airedale can do anything any other dog can do and then whip the other dog if he has to.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

155. “It is necessary for the welfare of the nation that men’s lives be based on the principles of the Bible. No man, educated or uneducated, can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

156. “Most of us tiptoe through life in order to make it safely to death.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

157. “In name we had the Declaration of Independence in 1776; but we gave the lie by our acts to the words of the Declaration of Independence until 1865; and words count for nothing except in so far as they represent acts.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

158. “Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

159. “It is always better to be an original than an imitation.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

160. “No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

161. “For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

162. “In the Grand Canyon, Arizona has a natural wonder which is in kind absolutely unparalleled throughout the rest of the world.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

163. “Death is always, under all circumstances, a tragedy, for if it is not then it means that life has become one.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

164. “This country has nothing to fear from the crooked man who fails. We put him in jail. It is the crooked man who succeeds who is a threat to this country.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

165. “I do not intend that our natural resources shall be exploited by the few against the interests of the many.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

166. “To exist as a nation, to prosper as a state, and to live as a people, we must have trees.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

167. “There is nothing brilliant or outstanding in my record, except perhaps this one thing. I do the things I believe ought to be done. And when I make up my mind to do a thing, I act.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

168. “To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

169. “Men can never escape being governed. Either they must govern themselves or they must submit to being governed by others.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

170. “Thank God for the iron in the blood of our fathers.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

171. “Americanism is a question of spirit, of conviction and purpose, not creed or birthplaces. The test of our worth is the service we render.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

172. “The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

173. “Malefactors of great wealth have arrogantly ignored the public welfare.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

174. “A grove of giant redwood or sequoias should be kept just as we keep a great and beautiful cathedral.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

175. “Not trying is the surest way of achieving nothing at all.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

176. “Nothing in this world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

177. “The woman has the right to be emancipated from the position of a drudge or a toy. She is entitled to a full equality in rights with man…”
— Theodore Roosevelt

178. “To educate a person without teaching ethics is to create a menace to society.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

179. “Where a trust becomes a monopoly the state has an immediate right to interfere.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

180. “McKinley has no more backbone than a chocolate eclair.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

181. “No, I’m not a good shot, but I shoot often.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

182. “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

183. “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

184. “In life, as in football, the principle to follow is to hit the line hard.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

185. “We, too, born to freedom, and believing in freedom, are willing to fight to maintain freedom. We, and all others who believe as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

186. “No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

187. “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

188. “Don’t hit at all if you can help it; don’t hit a man if you can possibly avoid it; but if you do hit him, put him to sleep.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

189. “Oh, if only I could be President and Congress, too, just for ten minutes.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

190. “There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

191. “The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

192. “Every Man owes some of his time to the upbuilding of the profession to which he belongs.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

193. “A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

194. “The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

195. “It is not what we have that will make us a great nation; it is the way in which we use it.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

196. “The White House is a bully pulpit.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

197. “Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

198. “Free speech exercised both individually and through a free press, is a necessity in any country where people are themselves free.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

199. “It is of little use for us to pay lip-loyalty to the mighty men of the past unless we sincerely endeavor to apply to the problems of the present precisely the qualities which in other crises enabled the men of that day to meet those crises.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

200. “Your attitude about who you are and what you have is a very little thing that makes a very big difference.”
— Theodore Roosevelt