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The biggest corporation, like the humblest private citizen, must be held to strict compliance with the will of the people as expressed in the fundamental law.

The biggest corporation, like the humblest private citizen, must be held to strict compliance with the will of the people as expressed in the fundamental law.

Theodore Roosevelt
Law, People, Citizens
Theodore Roosevelt (1904). “What Roosevelt Says ...”

It either is or ought to be evident to everyone that business has to prosper before anyone can get any benefit from it.

Theodore Roosevelt
Benefits, Ought, Evident

A party should not contain utterly incongruous elements, radically divided on the real issues, and acting together only on false and dead issues insincerely painted as real and vital. It should not in the several States as well as in the Nation be prostituted to the service of the baser type of political boss. It should be so composed that there should be a reasonable agreement in the actions taken by it both in the Nation and in the several States. Judged by these standards, both of the old parties break down.

Theodore Roosevelt
Real, Party, Taken
"Platform Insincerity". The Outlook Magazine, Vol. 101, No. 13, p. 660, July 27, 1912.

Nothing should be permitted to stand in the way of the preservation of the forests, and it is criminal to permit individuals to purchase a little gain for themselves through the destruction of forests when this destruction is fatal to the well-being of the whole country in the future.

Theodore Roosevelt
Country, Criminals, Littles
Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “Presidential addresses and state papers”

In this world the one thing supremely worth having is the opportunity to do well and worthily a piece of work of vital consequence to the welfare of mankind.

Theodore Roosevelt
Opportunity, Pieces, World

Never hit if you can help it, but when you have to, hit hard. Never hit soft. You'll never get any thanks for hitting soft.

Theodore Roosevelt
Hitting, Helping, Thanks

There can be no greater issue than that of conservation in this country.

Theodore Roosevelt
Country, Issues, Conservative
Theodore Roosevelt (1926). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt”

The first duty of an American citizen, then, is that he shall work in politics.

Theodore Roosevelt
Citizens, Firsts, Duty
Theodore Roosevelt (1967). “Writings”

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

Theodore Roosevelt
President, Worthy, Enjoyed

Ruin looks us in the face if we judge a man by his position instead of judging him by his conduct in that position.

Theodore Roosevelt
Men, Judging, Looks
Citizenship in a Republic - The Man in the Arena, delivered 23 April 1910, Le Sorbonne, University of Paris

Just as you believe you may have already halfway there

Theodore Roosevelt
Believe, Halfway There, May

Not trying is the surest way of achieving nothing at all.

Theodore Roosevelt
Encouragement, Trying, Way

Look Toward the stars but keep your feet firmly on the ground.

Theodore Roosevelt
Stars, Feet, Looks

The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side.

Theodore Roosevelt
Lying, Radicalism, Facts
Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.93, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Lincoln-sad, patient, kindly Lincoln, who after bearing upon his weary shoulders for four years a greater burden than that borne by any other man of the nineteenth century laid down his life for the people whom living he had served as well-built upon his early study of the Bible.

Theodore Roosevelt
Men, Years, People
Theodore Roosevelt (1906). “A Square Deal”

Each child represents either a potential addition to the protective capacity and enlightened citizenship of the nation or, if allowed to suffer from neglect, a potential addition to the destructive forces of a community. . . . The interests of the nation are involved in the welfare of this array of children no less than in our great material affairs.

Theodore Roosevelt
Children, Community, Suffering

The wild life of today is not ours to do with as we please. The original stock was given to us in trust for the benefit both of the present and the future. We must render an accounting of this trust to those who come after us.

Theodore Roosevelt
Wild Life, Camping, Benefits

What I am to be, I am becoming.

Theodore Roosevelt
Becoming

There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a democrat like myself must admit this. But there is absolutely nothing to be said for government by a plutocracy, for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with the money touch, but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers.

Theodore Roosevelt
Peace, Powerful, War
Theodore Roosevelt (1954). “The days of Armageddon, 1900-1914”

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Theodore Roosevelt
Children, Achievement, Form
Theodore Roosevelt (2013). “Bully!”, p.259, Simon and Schuster

Almost every man who has by his life-work added to the sum of human achievement of which the race is proud, of which our people are proud, almost every such man has based his life-work largely upon the teachings of the Bible

Theodore Roosevelt
Teaching, Men, Race
Theodore Roosevelt (1906). “A Square Deal”

The foes from whom we pray to be delivered are our own passions, appetites, and follies; and against these there is always need that we should war.

Theodore Roosevelt
War, Passion, Needs
Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

Willful sterility is, from the standpoint of the nation, from the standpoint of the human race, the one sin for which the penalty is national death, race death; a sin for which there is no atonement. No man, no woman, can shirk the primary duties of life, whether for love of ease and pleasure, or for any other cause, and retain his or her self-respect.

Theodore Roosevelt
Love, Men, Race
United States. President (1901-1909 : Roosevelt), Theodore Roosevelt (1906). “Message of the President of the United States Communicated to the Two Houses of Congress at the Beginning of the Second Session of the Fifty-ninth Congress”

Every expansion of civilization makes for peace. In other words, every expansion of a great civilized power means a victory for law, order, and righteousness. ...It is only the warlike power of a civilized people that can give peace to the world.

Theodore Roosevelt
Mean, Law, Civilization

We fight in honourable fashion for the good of mankind; fearless of the future, unheeding of our individual fates, with unflinching hearts and undimmed eyes; we stand at Armageddon, and we battle for the Lord

Theodore Roosevelt
Fashion, Heart, Eye
Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.30, Cornell University Press