17 quotes
The performance of duty, and not an indulgence in vapid ease and vapid pleasure, is all that makes life worth while.
Theodore Roosevelt — An Autobiography (1913)
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 — An Autobiography (1913)
Do what you can, with what you've got, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt — An Autobiography (1913)
There are many kinds of success in life worth having.
Theodore Roosevelt — An Autobiography (1913)
The only safe rule is to promise little, and faithfully to keep every promise; to "speak softly and carry a big stick."
Theodore Roosevelt — An Autobiography (1913)
Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work is as valuable as that of a man it should be paid as highly.
Theodore Roosevelt — An Autobiography (1913)
A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
Theodore Roosevelt — An Autobiography (1913)
Justice among the nations of mankind, and the uplifting of humanity, can be brought about only by those strong and daring men who with wisdom love peace, but who love righteousness more than peace.
Theodore Roosevelt — An Autobiography (1913)
While I was police commissioner, an anti-Semitic preacher from Berlin, Rector Ahlwardt, came over to New York to preach a crusade against the Jews.
Theodore Roosevelt — An Autobiography (1913)
We must ever judge each individual on his own conduct and merits, and not on his membership in any class, whether that class be based on theological, social, or industrial considerations.
Theodore Roosevelt — An Autobiography (1913)
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 — An Autobiography (1913)
Among the wise and high-minded people who in self-respecting and genuine fashion strive earnestly for peace, there are the foolish fanatics always to be found in such a movement and always discrediting it — the men who form the lunatic fringe in all reform movements.
Theodore Roosevelt — An Autobiography (1913)
The proper thing to do was to make him ridiculous. Accordingly I detailed for his protection a Jew sergeant [sic.] and a score or two of Jew [sic.] policemen. He made his harangue against the Jews under the active protection of some forty policemen, every one of them a Jew!
Theodore Roosevelt — An Autobiography (1913)
There must be the keenest sense of duty, and with it must go the joy of living; there must be shame at the thought of shirking the hard work of the world, and at the same time delight in the many-sided beauty of life.
Theodore Roosevelt — An Autobiography (1913)
In the end I have always believed that it would also be necessary to give the National Government complete power over the organization and capitalization of all business concerns engaged in inter-State commerce.
Theodore Roosevelt — An Autobiography (1913)
An attitude of moderation is apt to be misunderstood when passions are greatly excited and when victory is apt to rest with the extremists on one side or the other; yet I think it is in the long run the only wise attitude.
Theodore Roosevelt — An Autobiography (1913)
There were all kinds of things I was afraid of at first, ranging from grizzly bears to 'mean' horses and gun-fighters; but by acting as if I was not afraid I gradually ceased to be afraid.
Theodore Roosevelt — An Autobiography (1913)