Teddy Roosevelt

Let's devote our best thought and best energies to finding some method of getting rid of any and all evils in the body politic.

In this life as a rule the job that is easy to do is not very well worth while doing.

Evils have come through our very prosperity, but in warring against the evil let us be exceeding careful not to war against the prosperity.

Let's try to get rid of them, but let's show common sense in the effort.

Do your work and do it up to the handle and then play when you have got time to play, and if you are worth anything enjoy that, too.

Our officers and men on the march and in battle showed themselves not unworthy of you, the men of the great war.

We are all loyal Americans now—North, South, East and West—all alike jealous of the nation's honor and welfare.

To you alone it was given to face with victorious valor the one crisis in which not merely the nation's welfare but the nation's life was at stake.

Let us above all things beware in using the knife not to handle it so that it will be dangerous to the community even more than to the evil attacked.

Face the problem; realize its gravity, and then approach it in a spirit that will keep it ever in mind that if we are to succeed at all, it must be by each doing to the best of his capacity his own business, and yet by each remembering…

If any man tells you that he can advance a specific by which all the evils of the body politic will be made to disappear, distrust him, for if he is honest he knows not what he says.

We need, in order successfully to face the difficult and complex problems of our industrial civilization, all the courage and loyalty, and all the faith, and clearsighted sanity and purpose which there is at our command.

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

There was no money reward for what you did.

Prosperity by itself never made any man happy.

You men who fought in that war did the greatest deed which men have ever done.

The man who lives simply, and justly, and honor ably, whether rich or poor, is a good citizen.

The worth of a civilization is the worth of the man at its centre.

While modes of fighting were different in the time of Lincoln from that of Washington, and still more different today, the spirit that wins is just the same.

The best possible safeguard for this nation is an adequate and highly efficient navy.

It is our duty to lift him up; but it is also our duty to remember that there is no earthly use in trying to carry him.

And the best possible safeguard for this nation is an adequate and highly efficient navy.

No nation can face greatness without having to face trial.

The true line of cleavage lies between good citizen and bad citizen.

We do not need too many laws, too much legislation.