Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt

The government is us we are the government, you and I.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

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.

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

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.

Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering.

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.