Teddy Roosevelt

You believe practically that each man must work out his fate for himself.

If he won't try to walk himself he is not worth carrying.

We ought to say it as a reminder to us that we are not to be excused if in the future we do any less well than has been done in the past.

The only way by which, in the long run, any man can be helped is by teaching him to help himself.

An equal meed of praise belongs to those men who prepared in advance.

Almost all of our great Presidents have been brought up in the country.

Self-help and individual initiative remain to a peculiar degree typical of life in the country, life on a farm, in the lumbering camp, on a ranch.

I feel that the art of successful government in our country is the art of applying practically the every day principles of decency, morality and common sense.

The more one studies the problems of life and of civilization the more one realizes the infinitely greater importance of the man than of his physical surroundings.

The only way to obtain good government is for each man to do his own share.

Each of us, unless he is contented to be a cumberer of the earth's surface, must strive to do his life-work with his whole heart.

Shame upon the man who, when the opportunity to help is given, fails to stretch out the hand.

You preserved for us a united country and showed the world that it was ever to be united.

Hardness of heart is a dreadful quality, but it is doubtful whether, in the long run, it works more damage than softness of head.

The Government, national and state, can mighty easily spoil chances for all of us.

An efficient navy of adequate size is not only the best guarantee of peace, but is also the surest means for seeing that if war does come the result shall be honorable to our good name and favorable to our national interests.

If government cannot go on it is not government.

I thank you for listening.

I do not care how beautiful a theory is, if it won't fit in with the facts it is of no good.

We won out because our fathers had iron in their blood, because they dared greatly and did greatly, because when they were convinced where their duty lay they resolutely did it, no matter what the cost.

It is a much easier thing to tell people that you have got a patent recipe that—will save them from having to take trouble themselves than it is to tell them perfectly plain, homely truths.

No improvement in firearms, no perfection of equipment, no change in tactics will avail unless back of them all lies the spirit that sent you and your fellows from '61 to '65, again and again against the Confederate lines.

These problems are very difficult.

We should not be here if it were not for them, but their exercise has caused great questions to rise in our national life.

We will govern them primarily in their interests, but in our own interests also.