Theodore Roosevelt Patriotic Quotations

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.

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.

There is a homely old adage which runs: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.

Conservation is a great moral issue, for it involves the patriotic duty of insuring the safety and continuance of the nation.

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.

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.

The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others.