Teddy Roosevelt

We shall keep in the run, not only of abiding but of increasing prosperity, if as a people we only keep our sanity.

I think you will do me the justice to say that I do not say what I do not mean.

And again I wish to thank you for these splendid gifts which will commemorate as pleasant a forty-eight hours as any President ever spent since the White House was built.

I thank you most cordially.

I couldn't have had a gift that would have pleased me more.

It is not sympathy I feel for you, but admiration.

Each of you as he moved forward into battle was immensely interested in the man on his right and the man on his left.

It is the same thing now in civil life.

I am glad to have the pleasure of introducing to you a member of my cabinet.

The man that is needed is the man who will stay put.

Precept is a very good thing, but to my thinking an ounce of practical energy is worth any amount of precept without action.

We owe it to them that there is an America today.

We can not afford, if we are to make this republic true to its promise, if we are to make its mighty future as essentially great as is its past, we cannot, as citizens, afford to sunder in the deep matters along lines other than the lines…

I feel that I am not a stranger among you as I was engaged for 20 years in the cow-business in this State.

It is a fitting thing to be introduced on Decoration Day by a United States senator, who not only served in the great Civil War, but to whom it was given to win the highest treasure that can come to any American soldier, the medal of honor…

It is a great pleasure for me to address you upon this beautiful spring morning.

A man is no good if he runs away.

I would preach to my countrymen not the life of ease; not the effortless life of comfort, of avoidance of risk, and avoidance of trouble.

People of Wyoming, I believe in you and in your future.

Don't draw unless you mean to shoot.

In the marches, you remember, as recruits you found about midday the blanket was heavy, you were tempted to throw it away, and by midnight you wished you had two of them.

You know I have strong views about children.

A man who does a wrongful act sins against the State as well as against himself.

I believe in the Monroe Doctrine with all my heart and soul, and I intend to see that it is made good.

We must play a big part. We can play it badly or play it well—but play it we have got to.