Theodore Roosevelt President Quotations

The worst of all fears is the fear of living

No other President ever enjoyed the Presidency as I did.

If elected, I shall see to it that every man has a square deal, no less and no more.

I feel as fit as a bull moose.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism.

One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words."

The White House is a bully pulpit.

No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community.

Freedom is not a gift which can be enjoyed save by those shown themselves worthy of it.

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. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.

Boxing, jiu-jitsu, scaling the Matterhorn... I did cardio before cardio was cool.

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I never keep boys waiting. It's a hard trial for a boy to wait.

Conservation means development as much as it does protection.

To discriminate against a thoroughly upright citizen because he belongs to some particular church, or because, like Abraham Lincoln, he has not avowed his allegiance to any church, is an outrage against the liberty of conscience, which is one of the foundations of American life.

No President has ever enjoyed himself as much as I?

I must be wanting to be President. Every young man does. But I won't let myself think of it; I must not, because if I do, I will begin to work for it; I'll be careful, calculating, cautious in word and act, and so - I'll beat myself.

A President has a great chance; his position is almost that of a king and a prime minister rolled into one. Once he has left office he cannot do very much; and he is a fool if he fails to realize it all and to be profoundly thankful for having had the great chance.

I have had a great time as president.

I would a great deal rather be anything, say professor of history, than vice president.

Perhaps the most incapable Executive that ever filled the presidential chair...it would be difficult to imagine a man less fit to guide the state with honor and safety through the stormy times that marked the opening of the present century.

Oh, if only I could be President and Congress, too, just for ten minutes.

I don't think any President ever enjoyed himself more than I did. Moreover, I don't think any ex-President ever enjoyed himself more.

While President, I have been President - emphatically.

I have always said I would not have been President had it not been for my experience in North Dakota.

Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war, there is none which compares in importance with the great central task of leaving this land even a better land for our descendants than it is for us.

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

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

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

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorius 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.

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.